Tag: soa

Joe McKendrick's fairly recent posting pointed me to another installment of Greg the Architect talking about the analyst's "Mystic Grid" on SOA Management.  Very funny.

Too bad what Greg the...

Last week's InfoWorld article, SOA meets open b-to-b integration by Brad Shimmin, couldn’t escape my attention for several reasons. Brad makes the observation that ESB offerings seem to...

John Radko of GXS had an interesting blog entry about SOA versus ESB - Conflict or Collaboration where he talks about whether ESB and SOA should always be put together.  Since SOA is an...

Or rather, pick on them, but save some energy for others committing the same SOA infrastructure crimes.

A lot of commotion around Microsoft "missing the SOA boat" in the blogosphere over the last couple of days. I find it interesting on a number of levels.

Why only pick on...

I was reading Max Pucher's interesting rant about SOA and it reminded me of one of my own personal experiences with business agility.  I was flying back to San Francisco from Germany and had to go...

I've been following a series of posts, most recently one by Todd Biske from Momentum SI, discussing what the phrase, "It's not about the technology," means in the context of SOA, since so many people use it.

The...

Miko Matsumura had a thoughtful reply to my last post on whether SOA governance can make you less agile.  He's absolutely right that it depends on how you use governance.  So, I think it's worth clarifying then,...

I have this fantasy that I'll quit this labor of love here at Progress, and start a real career selling t-shirts with street-signs-that-would-be-funny-as-t-shirt-sayings. Always on the lookout for that breakout sign, today I found one to share.

I drove by this big rig with a sign on the...

Trust me, I'd like to say "no, SOA governance is the key to unlocking the business agility of SOA."  Problem is, it's not true -- at least the way I see most people approaching it...

One of the core "best practices" in SOA governance is to define policies that...