Author: david bressler

I'm on my way to Chile this weekend to speak at an IDC conference on SOA & Business Integration. Anticipating a long, ugly flight (this way, I won't be disappointed), I find myself in a mood to...

Did you ever just need to get away for a quick, short break? Have you ever turned to your significant other and said, "why don't we take a short vacation this weekend to try something new and relax?"

Then, before you know it you're on a two week vacation, with tons of luggage,...

Wow, things have really changed. I remember the first WS on Wall Street show I was at in '03 (if memory serves). It was all about "web service proxies." It was hard to tell the differentiation between the vendors, and,...

I'm not sure what you'd call it but I sure hope I never find out!

I think I'm starting at the end... where am I? Oh, yeah - SOA Governance. Right.

In 2006, when we (Actional) were first acquired (by...

No, I'm not having a fat day. I'm just exhausted from talking with people who are trying to boil the ocean in order to cook a couple of fish for dinner.

A question came up yesterday about the "tight coupling" between...

It's interesting when you have a shared blog... sometimes coordinating posts with others so there is no talking over each other leads to no one posting. It's especially hard for me, as I'm a "mood poster" - meaning, I post when I'm in the mood. Fortunately, I'm usually in the mood to talk...

Since I know many people google me and read this blog, let me start by saying that my children are written in Java, C#, and C++.

Actional can police every service platform out there... but for some, we add functionality using our Agent...

I don't know Tom, though I respect his accomplishments. I suspect he's a pretty smart guy, which would only mean that he'd be smart enough to have nothing to do with SOA,...

...her bastard child.

I was once relaxing with some friends and was asked, "what's the one thing you do better than anyone else?" I thought for a minute, and answered "I'm stupid. Too stupid to give up. Long after normal people give up, I just can't let things...