02-12-2010, 12:22 PM
Martin Fowler's article in Dr. Dobb's titled, Errant Architectures is a "must read" by architects and developers who actually care about service level management and performance. And, yes, I do believe there are architects and developers who do, although they are as rare as unicorns. Here is the lead-in to the article:
When we let objects wander, we all pay the performance price. Here's how to avoid distributed dystopia's overhead of remote procedure calls and ignore middleware's siren song.