http://simonwillison.net/2019-05-14T18:32:36+00:00Simon Willison2019-05-14T18:32:36+00:002019-05-14T18:32:36+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2019/May/14/amazons-away-teams/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/14/amazons_away_teams/">Amazon’s Away Teams laid bare: How AWS&#x27;s hivemind of engineers develop and maintain their internal tech</a></strong></p> Some interesting insights into how Amazon structure their engineering organization to maximize team productivity in a service-oriented environment. Two things that stood out to me: each service is owned by a “home team”, but sometimes features that are needed by other teams can be built by forming an “away team” to build out that functionality. Secondly, Amazon has a concept of “bar raisers” who are engineers across the organization who help approve key design and architectural decisions. It’s possible to go against the recommendation of a bar raiser but “such a move is noted and made visible to higher levels of management”. <p><small></small>Via <a href="https://twitter.com/cote/status/1128202812515594240">@cote</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/amazon">amazon</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/service-oriented-architecture">service-oriented-architecture</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/management">management</a></p>

2007-10-06T01:44:26+00:002007-10-06T01:44:26+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Oct/6/pete/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="http://wanderingbarque.com/nonintersecting/2007/10/05/what-is-soa/"><p>SOA [...] is the generally held belief that when implementing systems one should expose system functionality for general consumption directly from the network, as well as or instead of burying it behind a user interface.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="http://wanderingbarque.com/nonintersecting/2007/10/05/what-is-soa/">Pete Lacey</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/definitions">definitions</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/pete-lacey">pete-lacey</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/service-oriented-architecture">service-oriented-architecture</a></p>

2007-01-17T23:32:06+00:002007-01-17T23:32:06+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jan/17/fipa/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.dehora.net/journal/2007/01/fipa_abstract_architecture.html">FIPA Abstract Architecture</a></strong></p> Bill de hÓra shows how the work of the Intelligent Agents community relates to SOA / WS-*. We studied FIPA at University and the parallels to parts of the Web Service stack are pretty interesting. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/bill-de-hora">bill-de-hora</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/fipa">fipa</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/service-oriented-architecture">service-oriented-architecture</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-agents">ai-agents</a></p>