Paul Hernacki

Okay, so you've developed what you believe is a useful piece of code and exposed it to the world as a Web service. All comers may now rejoice in the warmth and glow of your artful coding. But who are the people and what are the business systems benefiting from your Web service? Are you reaching all the possible consumers of the service? What more would you have to do to make it as useful as possible to an even greater audience? And, to ask a simple but important question, do you even know exactly who's on the other end using the service? The truth is, there's only so far you can go in order to make certain that the people you want to have access to your service are the ones actually using it. Thus begins the careful balancing act between concepts like functionality and performance...and the increasingly important issue of security. Wondering where this is going? Ke... (more)