Gangstas Dont Scale Enterprise integration had a tendency about ten years ago to be all asynchronous. Enterprise Architects, seduced by talk of cheap limitless scale from vendors, installed message based middeware everywhere. But asynchrony has some important constraints that aren’t always obvious. This article illustrates one of these constraints using an example from The Wire TV show.
Walking the Walk
The Estimation Game Much of what happens during portfolio planning is just wasting time on a wistful mirage.
Was that Tactegic or Stractical When there’s a clash of opinion on whether to go strategic or tactical, do not waste time debating how you could do the tactical first then deploy the strategic option later. It. Never. Happens.
Planning the Plan Portfolio planning and the McFarlan Matrix in action.
Brewers CAP Theorem An explanation of Eric Brewer’s CAP theorem, which says you cannot have more than two of Consistency, Availability and Partition-tolerance in web-based distributed systems.
The Super-Geek Top Ten A super-geek top ten, exploring the more human side of some of the greatest computer scientists in history.
The Event-Driven Architecture An introduction to the event-driven architecture and the subject of complex event processing as they apply to business.
Wife Swapping and the Art of Conflict Great results requires great leadership, which is less about trying to get people to reach consensus than enabling productive conflict via the gift of the wife swap pattern.
Role Models and Services Successful SOA is about being able to define real services and not confusing them with interfaces. The secret to services is roles.