I'm looking forward to Oracle OpenWorld next week
Its always a great time, very informative, and a great way for customers, partners, and Oracle staff to mingle and talk about technology. I would like to invite you all to come to my sessions on Tuesday.
This one will have Carl Dumont, CTO of Wellpoint, co-presenting with me talking about their use of Coherence in their SOA environment to cache results from expensive backend system calls -
ID#: S307456
Title: SOA and Application Grid for Improving Back-end Response Times and Reducing Customer Abrasion
Track: Service-Oriented Architecture and Business Process Management
Date: 13-OCT-09
Time: 11:30 - 12:30
Venue: Marriott Hotel
Room: Salon 12/13
Abstract: Service Orientation allows IT to modularize business applications into reusable service components that can be combined together in new ways that are more flexible and capable of readily adapting to business growth and change. However through service enabling of legacy application assets into reusable business services, you may be unwittingly driving increased traffic toward backend systems that weren't ever designed or appropriately sized to handle such loads. In this session, co-presented by Wellpoint CTO Carl Dumont, we will learn how Wellpoint is using a service result cache to build a Data Grid into their SOA fabric that offloads and dramatically reduces load on backend systems, resulting in a cost savings in millions per year.
ID#: S308618
Title: The Service-Result-Cache Pattern: Using a Data Grid in the SOA Tier
Track: Oracle Develop: Service-Oriented Architecture
Date: 13-OCT-09
Time: 14:30 - 15:30
Venue: Hilton Hotel
Room: Yosemite A
Abstract: By service enabling of legacy application assets into reusable business services, you may be unwittingly driving increased traffic toward backend systems that weren't ever designed or appropriately sized to handle such loads. The challenge of building excess capacity into backend systems to handle peak loads at certain times of the day, month, or year can be costly and time consuming.
An Application Grid makes it possible for a business to meet SLA's by enabling applications to achieve predictable latency under increased sustained loads. When combined with a SOA using the Service Result Cache pattern, an Application Grid can dramatically reduce load on backend systems by caching results from frequently accessed services.
I encourage you to also check these summaries of all the SOA Sessions, SOA Governance sessions, and Application Grid sessions.
I hope to see you there!
Dave
