Talk:    NetKernel and Resource Oriented Cloud
Speaker: Peter Rodgers
When:    July 26, 18:30 - 20:00
Where:   Skills Matter
         116-120 Goswell Road, London

This event is FREE, but registration is
required:
http://skillsmatter.com/event/design-architecture/netkernel-and-the-resource-oriented-cloud/zx-722

Abstract:

NetKernel's Resource Oriented Computing abstraction enables the core principles behind the Web's REST architecture to be brought inside. To rebalance the software equation and step away from APIs and instead to put information resources first. The ROC abstraction wasn't created as "technology for technologies sake". Its fundamental motivation was to "bottle the Web's economic properties" of scalability, caching, malleability and dynamic adaptability so that we can simply and cleanly gain the same qualities at the heart of software solutions.

The recently released NetKernel 4 incorporates the NetKernel Protocol - a network client-server protocol that enables NetKernel's ROC abstraction to seamlessly span the cloud. In this in-the-brain, NetKernel Architect Peter Rodgers will introduce NetKernel from the perspective of the NK protocol and show how it goes beyond HTTP/REST and offers a new dimension in scalable, cacheable resource oriented solutions. Along the way, he will show how the power of the distributed solutions that are enabled are scale invariant and can be applied with equal validity within the small scale internals of a local software solution.

About Peter Rodgers:

Peter Rogers is the originator of resource oriented computing and co-architect of 1060 NetKernel, a resource oriented computing platform. Developed out of original research led by Rogers at Hewlett-Packard Labs, NetKernel combines and extends the fundamental principles of the Web and Unix to create a coherent and simple software abstraction. Resource oriented computing means everything is treated as logical URI addressed resources, just like in the Web, even code and functions. By thinking first about logical information resources and stepping away from APIs, the amazing flexibility and scaling properties demonstrated in the Web can be applied down inside the internals of software architecture.

Rogers is one of the co-founders of 1060 Research and a co-architect of 1060 NetKernel. Prior to forming 1060 Research, he was the leader of Hewlett-Packard's Dexter research programme. At HP he held a number of positions including senior research scientist and senior strategist to HP's mobile computing division. In 1999 Rogers founded HP's Information Commerce research programme and started the foundational research on resource oriented computing. He holds a first class BSc in Physics from St. Andrews University and a PhD in solid-state Quantum Mechanics from the University of Nottingham.

To learn more about NetKernel and 1060 project, visit http://1060.org/