Coming soon ... "The Architecture that Wasn't!"
I have a blog post in mind. The title will be “The architecture that wasn’t”, or something along those lines. The subject, is a very popular architecture (a full system architecture, not just a description of the data access mechanism), which is widely used in Greece as well. Only thing is, it has some very strange characteristics:
- It has been successful for over a decade
- Whoever uses it in Greece, thinks he is the only one to do so.
- When they learn that others use it they go into shock.
- Most of the companies using it outside Greece tend to be quiet about it.
- It allows the creation of completely new applications in months (~6 months for complex enterprise level apps).
- People who don’t use it think it is impossible, even when they see the apps running before their eyes.
- People who do, can’t understand why the rest of the world doesn’t. After all, they can create new apps in months!
- Microsoft offers the tools for it almost for free. Next year, it will be almost totally free.
And then, I think we should have a community event about it, or better yet, a full-blown DevDays event, where the people from the companies that do use it will present their implementations, the different services and facilities they provide and the problems they faced in the past. I know of at least 4 Greek companies that use this architecture, and I’m certain there are a lot more.
If anything else, this way we may no longer hear how everything must be coded in the forms because we have no time for architecture and anyway architecture is only for Microsoft and banks and the business environment in Greece doesn’t allow us to do a proper architecture and it would be good to have it but impractical …
The usual litany.
I would like some help though, as I’m not very happy with the title yet. If you have a better one, please, speak up!