1060 Research

Unlike so many other technology companies, we are not motivated by technology alone. We are motivated to get to the root causes of waste in information technology systems and to radically transform software economics. Through basic research we have discovered the way to step away from code and APIs and instead put information resources at the heart... of evolvable architectures. Along the way we discovered how to extract maximum performance from minimum computing footprint. This is our story... Over the years industry has discarded hundreds of billions of lines of code. Common sense alone would tell you there must be a better way to go about things? Frameworks layer abstraction on top of abstraction leading to mountains of brittle, unmaintainable, unreadable code. Even Alan Kay, father of OO, says they don't work. The Web has never been thrown away but has always evolved. The Web must be doing something different? The Web's process is two step: resolve-execute. What can we learn from this? REST stops at the doorstep. We thought, let's take the two step resolve-execute process inside and step away from the APIs. Suddenly our systems demonstrate the same evolvable architecture as the web. Our systems start to obey the same economics as the web. This is a radical change to the economics of software. Even though we were not motivated by technology, it turns out, counter-intuitively, that taking two-steps leads to higher performance! What's more, systems are evolvable, dynamic, uncoupled, reusable, repurposable... And... the web is just the start. The destination is Resource Oriented Computing. The breakthrough of Resource Oriented Computing changes the economics of software. It does this at the small scale, inside and between software components, but it's property of scale invariance means the same results are gained in the cloud, in big data, etc, etc... If you want to learn more about Resource Oriented Computing and how to take advantage of the new software economics explore the following: The 1060 team created ...Read More