REST or SOA/Web services - you make the call

Will the entertainment never stop? Duncan Cragg threw down the REST vs. SOA/Web services gauntlet to an imaginary eBay architect in a nine-part virtual dialogue - and Dan Pritchett, the real mccoy, was there to pick it up.

Let the battle of wits begin. Developer mano a mano on scalability, caching issues in huge transactional systems, Web 2.0 interoperability - it's all in there.

If you want to catch Dan in person, he's speaking tonight in San Jose about The eBay Architecture – Striking a balance between site stability, feature velocity, performance and cost.