Thoughts on the “generic-vs.-specific” trade-off

Whether it’s DSLs vs. general purpose programming languages, or internal DSLs vs. external DSLs, or UML vs. MOF, or a specific XML format vs. XHTML, or tunnelling web service calls through HTTP POST or GET, the same abstract problem occurs again and again, forcing the architect to decide whether to go with a generic solution or invent a specific one. In this talk, Stefan will illustrate how this problem manifests itself in many different scenarios, outline the pros and cons of both the extreme as well as in-the-middle solutions, and derive a guideline on how to deal with it.

Date

2009-03-13

Time

11:45 - 12:45

Conference / Event

QCon London 2009

Venue

London