Subject: [89attendees] BCS Event During IETF anyone with an interest welcome to register.correct booking link

From: David Misell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 15:12:04 +0000

BCS Software Practice Advancement specialist group
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SPA-278: Resource-Oriented Computing - what happens when Web concepts are applied to solution economics
Peter Rodgers, founder and CEO, 1060 Research Ltd.
18:30-20:00 (approx), Wednesday 5 Mar 2014
(Complimentary sandwiches and refreshments from 6pm)
Venue: BCS Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London WC2E 7HA

Admission Free. Please pre-register as soon as possible under

Unfortunately the link to the sign-up page in the last e-mail was
incorrect. Please use this one:

https://spa278.eventbrite.co.uk
 For security reasons, BCS London
insists on being furnished with a complete list of expected attendees
by close of business one day before the meeting (in this case, Tuesday
4th March). To allow me to order the right amount of food, please
try to register as early as you can and if possible no later than
close of business on Wednesday 26th February.

Synopsis

In software we build solutions and at some point we reach a glass ceiling - the point at which it is cheaper to throw it away and start again than to try to push forward.

The Web is different. We've never had to throw the Web away - it just seems to evolve. The Web demonstrates a different economic model, one in which the cost of change is less than the value added.

In this talk Peter Rodgers will introduce the core concepts of Resource Oriented Computing. He will show how the basic ideas of the Web (such as REST) can be generalized and applied inside software. He will demonstrate a new and practical way of thinking about software that allows us to step up, out of the confines of programming languages, to a world of resources and evolvable resource composition.

Along the way, he will show how radically decoupling software architecture leads to significant economic returns both in the development/maintenance phases and the operational engineering, with dramatic breakthroughs in performance and scalability of complex systems.

Biography

Peter Rodgers is the architect of NetKernel and the father of Resource Oriented Computing. Peter started his research into ROC at Hewlett Packard Labs. When trying to build very large scale software solutions, he discovered that he could afford to "build-one", but that the long-tail cost of software dwarfs the headline costs.

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Yours Faithfully,

Dave Misell MSc CISSP

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