April 22, 2007 6:00 AM PDT
When the baseball season starts, Choti is focused on maintenance, support and keeping IT infrastructure running efficiently. Once the World Series ends, Choti's IT season begins. This off season, Choti moved to a service oriented architecture (SOA) so MLB.com could swap components of various applications easily. For instance, with a SOA architecture MLB.com can more readily move its resources. That means at 9 a.m. EDT, computing power of video servers can be used elsewhere, for testing or transactions. Once 1 p.m. EDT hits, computing power switches over to video again. Choti estimates the site is 40 times faster than it was a year ago, largely due to the SOA-based architecture. Choti's mission beyond the 2007 season: prepping the MLB.com network to handle high-definition television.
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