Granular Web

As RW/W has written. Granular web is cool, and can be very useful to reduce application development cost. RW/W wrote about the big granular web player such as Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, OpenID, and other. Wether they are useful or not has been proven. They are useful, thought there are yet significant number of user can be counted. However, these granular web has also gives each app using it a default weakness: dependencies.

I’m not using any of those big boys services yet. My need is nowhere far from converting rss to json for some retarded need of displaying RSS feed in my blog. Nevertheless, I’ve been facing real world issue here. Both the service Iw ant to use is currently, somehow unavailable. rss2json of the famous John ‘jQuery’ Resig is currently generating status 500 Internal Error. And the alternatives, xml2json of Ning’s Badgerfish, is taking a break.

What would happen if such case happened to my 3,1337 user base social network app? I’ll be definitely enjoying quite good number of howler.

So, what’s my point? Hell, I may need to install my own copy of badgerfish. May be I can escalate it into a fullblown reliable service, no?