Jeff Nolan's new gig unveiled
As I posted here, Jeff Nolan left SAP recently. Jeff is the guy who saved me from consulting and hired me here at SAP. Have had the chance to catch up with him a bit here at Office 2.0.
Today he made public where he landed: CEO of Teqlo. Definitely, check out his posting on his move and new company. Teqlo is funded by Leapfrog Ventures. Also, below I've included a Q&A on Teqlo.
Q: What is Teqlo?
A: Teqlo the company is committed to the vision that users should be
able to assemble functional web applications without having to know
how to program. The applications, called “Teqlos”, are assembled out
of readily available web services. These services, called “Teqlets”,
have a service wrapper around them that semantically normalizes web
services by expressing inputs/outputs as microformats and then
subjecting them to a routing algorithm that determines the proper
sequencing of the services in order to create an application.
Q: Wait a minute, how do you determine the “sequencing”?
A: Traditional programming using a flow-of-control model where
application components are strung together and hardwired by
developers. Do this, then this, then this, if error condition then do
this. Teqlos follow a data flow model of sequencing that is roughly
analogous to the internet itself with each Teqlo having a starting
state and a successful completion state, and the Teqlo infrastructure
determines the appropriate path to link the services together by
routing data to each service based on what it is asking for and
producing. The reason the internet is reliable and scalable is that
each packet doesn’t have to have a predetermined path to completion,
the routing infrastructure of the internet detemines it as it is
delivering the packet.
Q: Teqlos are built up from Teqlets, but you don’t have many Teqlets
available yet. How long will it be before I have the services I want.
A: The preview version of Teqlo.com is certainly not a finished
product, in fact aside from demonstrating the concept in a functional
system we do not expect that you will be productive in this release.
The top three priorities we have are to 1) finish the development
environment and APIs so that anyone can develop their own Teqlets, 2)
enhance the runtime environment to be more user friendly and
reliable, and 3) build out the Teqlet library.
Q: If I build a Teqlo, who owns it?
A: You do. The publishing process permits you 3 levels of state with
public being wide open, private being only for you, and group
enabling the invite process
Q: If I build a Teqlet, who owns it?
A: You do. While we are encouraging the development of public
Teqlets, we have a licensing model that enable Teqlet developers to
license their Teqlets.
Q: Will Teqlos run outside of Teqlo.com?
A: No, but this is something we are working on.
[Teqlo]
[Jeff Nolan]
Today he made public where he landed: CEO of Teqlo. Definitely, check out his posting on his move and new company. Teqlo is funded by Leapfrog Ventures. Also, below I've included a Q&A on Teqlo.
Q: What is Teqlo?
A: Teqlo the company is committed to the vision that users should be
able to assemble functional web applications without having to know
how to program. The applications, called “Teqlos”, are assembled out
of readily available web services. These services, called “Teqlets”,
have a service wrapper around them that semantically normalizes web
services by expressing inputs/outputs as microformats and then
subjecting them to a routing algorithm that determines the proper
sequencing of the services in order to create an application.
Q: Wait a minute, how do you determine the “sequencing”?
A: Traditional programming using a flow-of-control model where
application components are strung together and hardwired by
developers. Do this, then this, then this, if error condition then do
this. Teqlos follow a data flow model of sequencing that is roughly
analogous to the internet itself with each Teqlo having a starting
state and a successful completion state, and the Teqlo infrastructure
determines the appropriate path to link the services together by
routing data to each service based on what it is asking for and
producing. The reason the internet is reliable and scalable is that
each packet doesn’t have to have a predetermined path to completion,
the routing infrastructure of the internet detemines it as it is
delivering the packet.
Q: Teqlos are built up from Teqlets, but you don’t have many Teqlets
available yet. How long will it be before I have the services I want.
A: The preview version of Teqlo.com is certainly not a finished
product, in fact aside from demonstrating the concept in a functional
system we do not expect that you will be productive in this release.
The top three priorities we have are to 1) finish the development
environment and APIs so that anyone can develop their own Teqlets, 2)
enhance the runtime environment to be more user friendly and
reliable, and 3) build out the Teqlet library.
Q: If I build a Teqlo, who owns it?
A: You do. The publishing process permits you 3 levels of state with
public being wide open, private being only for you, and group
enabling the invite process
Q: If I build a Teqlet, who owns it?
A: You do. While we are encouraging the development of public
Teqlets, we have a licensing model that enable Teqlet developers to
license their Teqlets.
Q: Will Teqlos run outside of Teqlo.com?
A: No, but this is something we are working on.
[Teqlo]
[Jeff Nolan]
posted by Mark Crofton at
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