Endangered Middle-Tier, Revisited

Since this blog is now being syndicated on Architecture Center, I thought I should repost links to a recent pair of entries I wrote entitled “Is the Middle-Tier Endangered?” and “The Endangered Middle-Tier, Part 2“. The basic premise of the posts is that as computer hardware gets faster and service-orientation aims to carve our course-grained applications into finer-grained services, the value of running the business logic on a separate tier diminishes greatly. Add an improved programming model to the database (such as the CLR’s addition to SQL 2005) and I feel that, eventually, it will make more sense to run the services in-process with the database instead of on a separate tier. We’re not there yet – in addition to continued hardware improvements, we need a major improvement to the overall management infrastructure – but I think it will happen. The question is, do you think it will happen?

This entry was posted by DevHawk on May 14, 2004. It was posted in Architecture. It was tagged SOA.

Comments:

Absolutely it will happen. It just makes so much sense to move the application server logic into the database, closer to the data. I also think with the rising popularity of smart clients, more business logic will be moved down to the client tier.
This comment was posted by Darrel Miller on May 14, 2004 at 3:28 PM.
nice comment
This comment was posted by stellenmarktplatz on May 20, 2004 at 3:25 AM.

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