…essential reading for anyone seeking to deploy this technology.

What a treat! This book is an absolute must for CIOs and CTOs and any of us that need to penetrate the hype of web services in order to discover realistic ways to leverage loosely coupled technologies for strategic advantage.

I’m very impressed by the range of Doug Kaye’s grasp of the crucial concepts, ranging from what’s important to business to the current and future technologies.

Anyone in charge of e-business who is looking to revolutionize their business interactions must read this book.

Loosely Coupled goes beyond simply echoing the hype surrounding web services, and offers invaluable guidance in the benefits to be gained and strategies for deploying web services initiatives that drive real business value.

The ultimate resource for selecting a complex Web hosting vendor.

The content in this book is amazing.

One of my favorite chapters in the book is “The Dark Side of Outsourcing”–where he tells you everything that can go wrong–so you’re prepared to avoid all of those things. If you’re looking for a ‘how to think’ approach to the problem of outsourcing your hosting, this book is the place to start!

…very impressed…A great job in making it interesting enough for experienced business consumers while keeping within the grasp of the first timer.

I spent a few hours reading Doug Kaye’s excellent book, and am impressed by how thorough he is, his focus on subjects dear to my heart (operations management, service levels and contract management), and Doug’s clear and engaging writing style. This book stands apart because there is a dearth of books that address any of the topics, much less all three. Bravo Doug!

Doug Kaye has written a great whitepaper on “swarming” P2P content distribution systems, where a file’s availability in a network increases as a function of its demand — if traditional client-server is a Tragedy of the Commons where the most valuable resources’ availability dwindles away to zero, P2P CDNs are a Commons where the sheep shit grass, where the act of consuming a resource actually increases its availability. Here’s the PDF of Doug’s paper — nice work, Doug!