Architecture

I was writing a requirement document for a client project and I wanted to outline some key indicators of quality he should expect from the final product. I thought of sharing it with you.

At work, I had a conversation about implementing SOAP with an other service, It struck me that they did not talk about REST. Mostly in today's distributed systems, you may want to think twice about how to implement for the future. This is some thoughts I had on the matter

Some guidelines on what is Cloud Computing related to the scaling point of view. This is the continuity of the thread about a shopping cart and payment gateway commerce site using a CMS. The conversation persisted on what to do and look for cloud hosting.

A peer asked for opinion about things to consider to use cloud computing services. I assumed then that he meant that he wishes to use what some vendors sells as "flip the switch" scaling.

I do not want to say that I am an expert in programming languages, nor a PHP guru. But with my experience in web development and discussions with other community leaders from the Java, Ruby, Python, Javascript communities and with my own working in team, I learned stuff and here's some of what I consider "hot", in the PHP world, ~~right now~~ <ins>in 2012</ins>.