Tough Choices
Ah, wouldn't life be wonderful if there was only one perfect middleware layer choice, one that provided all the features we needed, coupled with unexcelled performance? Well, wake up and smell the coffee. Life may be wonderful, but it's almost never that easy. Before hooking your application to any middleware technology, you need to examine all the technologies and carefully weigh their advantages and disadvantages as they apply to your particular situation.
RPCs are slow, but their blocking nature provides the best data integrity control. For example, while an asynchronous layer to access data may seem to be the best solution, there is no way to guarantee that an update will occur in a timely manner. It is not difficult (especially ...
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