What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Just What Could Possibly Go Wrong In B2B Integration?

One important trend in enterprise-scale IT has been the increasing use of business-to-business integration (B2Bi) technologies to automate business processes that cross organisational boundaries, such as the interactions between partner companies along the supply chain. It is relatively easy to describe a pattern of interaction, or choreography, in the case where everything proceeds smoothly. H...

Offshoring: What Can Go Wrong?

tens of thousands of miles from the home base—a client in the US offshoring IT work to a vendor in India or China, for example. Can it be done well? Offshoring has recently sustained much criticism, mainly over the issue of whether shipping IT work abroad is good for the US as a whole. I have written in that context as well, but my focus here is at the company level. Does it benefit a US firm t...

But What if Things go Wrong?

Building large-scale distributed systems these days is facilitated by a number of distribution frameworks. However, in practice, we see that failure handling is often treated poorly in these frameworks. An exception is transactions, which are a well-known approach for handling failure, and we see that, indeed, these distribution frameworks provide for transaction management. Transactions themse...

Radiation sterilization failures what can go wrong?

What Could Anti - Realism About Ordinary Psychology Possibly Be ?

Descartes observed that you could not lucidly doubt that you exist nor that you are a thinking thing. It would follow that there can be no lucid doubt about the reality of those psychological states and attributes whose possession is distinctive of thinkers, par excellence their being subject to the various kinds of doxastic and conative states involved in goal-directed thought. Thus it seems a...