Lessons in Grid Computing: The System Is a Mirror
Stuart Robbins · 2006
Foreword by Geoffrey Moore. Foreword by Thornton May. Acknowledgments. Chapter 1: The Prime Theorem Information Systems Mirror the People that Build Them. Chapter 2: Interfaces How They Work and What Happens When They Are Broken. Chapter 3: Relationship Management We Can No Longer Manage the Systems as Single Nodes. Chapter 4: Virtualization A Natural Stage in the Maturity Cycle of Technologies Chapter 5: Orchestration Finding a Sensible Order amid too Many Complications to Count. Chapter 6: Complexity Databases, Passwords, Collaboration, Funding, Smashed Atoms, and a Professor. Chapter 7: Distributed Resources Two Types of Diffusion--Compute Resources and Human Capital. Chapter 8: Flash Teams Analysis of New Organizational Groups from Several Perspectives. Chapter 9: Network as Narrative Form Basic Building Blocks Connected to Create Various Structures. Chapter 10: Identity Finding the Needle in the Haystack and Giving It a Name. Chapter 11: Organizational Architecture How We Organize Ourselves Is as Important as What We Say and Do. Chapter 12: (Theory of) Resonant Usability Everything Is Moving to the Presentation Layer, Where Humans Interact. Chapter 13: Turbulence Creating Stability in the Face of Chaotic Disruption. Chapter 14: Libraries Two Lives, Two Windows, and the Search for Information. Chapter 15: Abstraction Lift Yourself above the Conflicting Details and Look for Similarity. Chapter 16: Insubordination as an Asset Why You Must Allow Employees to Disagree with Your Decisions. Chapter 17: The Consortium The Multisourced IT Organization and a Software Commons--Our Future. Chapter 18: The Everysphere An Example of Synchronous Events between Unrelated Objects. Chapter 19: Q Narratives Understand the Story and You Will Understand the Business Process. Chapter 20: Leaving Flatland To Adjust Somehow after Learning That Your World Has Another Dimension. Chapter 21: We Are the Platform Some Final Observations about the System and the Mirror. Index.