Jan 15th 2006, 22:22 GMT
Brad Burnham: Web Services in the Mist:
[Quote] Last fall, Wired ran a story about the sequencing of the Chimpanze’s genome. One of the most striking revelations was how close it was to ours. Depending on how you count, we humans share 96-99% of the genes in Chimpanzees.So what does that have to do with web services? Many of the services we see are lightweight hacks (I use that term with reverence) on top of a huge shared hardware software and communications infrastructure. If you were to analyze the entire infrastructure necessary for the delivery of two different web services including the code in the chips, operating systems, browsers and communications systems, you might find that 96-99% of the code necessary to deliver the services is identical.
On the other hand, just as we would like to think that the 1-4% of our genes that we do not share with chimpanzees makes a big difference, the creators of innovative web services argue correctly that the difference between one web service and another is huge. [Quote]
[via Stan] I definitely like the analogy, and I think the observation is spot on.
Now, on to finding these “evolutionary” 1-4% of the web’s genes. :)
Edited on Jan 15th 2006, 22:25 by Gossip
