Comments on: QCon London: The Best One Yet

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Blogposts about QCon London 2009 | JAOO Community Blog — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:44:31 +0000

[...] Steve Vinoski: http://steve.vinoski.net/blog/2009/03/18/qcon-london-the-best-one-yet/ [...]

By: steve

steve — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:23:21 +0000

@Mark: Hi, how are things? I don't recall ever saying in my slides or in anything else I've written that RPC is dead — rather, given my continuous focus on things related to "The Innovator's Dilemma" and the Technology Adoption Life Cycle curve, I know few things like this simply just roll over and die quickly. Like I said yesterday in my comment on Stefan's blog, I'm well aware that it won't be easy to get the industry over the effects of the long history of language-first distributed systems development.

By: Mark Little

Mark Little — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:47:52 +0000

BTW, the program was Bullseye ;-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnghavvhExE

By: Linda Kim

Linda Kim — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:59:08 +0000

Hi, Steve.

It is nice to read your blog about QCon London. I should say then I was present at your last RPC presentation in history!
I also liked Ulf’s defence on Null reference.

By: Mark Little

Mark Little — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:05:47 +0000

Hi Steve. Looks like a good presentation. But you know RPC isn’t dead: like most things it just needs to be used a lot less in many situations and users need to understand the trade-offs they’re getting into (which is something the majority of RPC users didn’t know or care about in the past).

I still have a sh*t load of VHS tapes and probably will for a long time to come, but DVD/Blueray are the wave of the future. Would I buy new VHS tapes? It depends on the situation but I wouldn’t rule it out. It still has some benefits over DVD (it’s quick, still pretty universal, not region locked, and easier/cheaper to record.)

Mark.