This workshop might be of interest to you or to people you know. At
OOPSLA. Please pass this along.
http://dreamsongs.com/Feyerabend/Breathturn2006.html
Short blurb:
Scale changes everything.
The trend in the design and development of software-intensive systems
today is toward scale that increases in every measurable way. Lines
of code, complexity, dependency, communication, bandwidth, memory,
datasets, and many other measures for our systems continue to reach
and exceed the limits of our ability to produce high-quality systems
for all purposes.
These systems will be unbounded, integrating internet-scale
resources. They will serve diverse stakeholders with competing
objectives and at the same time be constrained by policy, regulation,
and the behaviors of their users. The lines between development,
acquisition, and operations will blur: ULS systems will not die; they
will be too large to be replaced and will be inextricably connected
to the day-to-day mission. Rather, they will continue to evolve over
time with behavior often more emergent than planned. Because complete
specifications will not be achievable, sufficient assurance will have
to do. ULS systems present "wicked problems," ones for which each
attempt to create a solution changes the problem. Some of these
characteristics appear in conventional systems, but in ULS systems
they will dominate.
-rpg-
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