System Reliability requires Message Durability (immature WCF)
WCF is a very cool technology. Microsoft has moved the goalposts in the messaging space with this one, and I’m…
Reliability in SOA is HUGE
A colleague of mine, Dottie Shaw, blogged recently about why Durable Messaging matters. I agree with everything she says. Even…
Go Build an Enterprise Architecture
The word “architecture” is an odd one. It is used in many ways, including to describe the interrelationship of components within…
Is an entity service an 'antipattern'
I’ve seen many folks who have come to the conclusion that CRUD services (aka ‘Entity services’) are an antipattern. Most…
Layers and Layers of Services… yep… no confusion there
Udi Dahan posted an excellent and thoughtful opinion about one of my posts on intermediation. I really like his thinking. …
Why you need an Enterprise SOA Planning Governance Framework
I’m looking at a problem that occurs in different enterprises, from Microsoft to Government, heavy manufacturing to healthcare, distribution to e-commerce, It doesn’t occur in every…
Partitioning in an Integrated System Design
Partitioning isn’t a word we hear very much of. Most of the time, when we talk about Partitioning, we are…
The Value of Intermediation, part two
I got a particularly valuable response to my previous post on the Value of Intermediation in SOA. In that response,…
The value of Intermediation in SOA
I find myself surprised. I guess I had assumed that everyone has already read books like Enterprise Integration Patterns by…
Excellent Primer on Canonical Data Models
Just a tribute to Jack van Hoof, who provided a GREAT primer on intermediation, EAI, and Canonical Data Models in…