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SOA Optimistic Data Synchronization considered harmful
Let’s say that you have two systems: Adipose and BellyFat. They both need the same information. Adipose handles customer transactions, so it needs information about customers. BellyFat handles the long-term management of customer information, like what Read More...
Civil Engineering Analogy to Enterprise Architecture: Flawed
It is typical to see comparisons of Civil Engineering to Enterprise Architecture.  A number of papers from Gartner have made the comparison, as have many articles and conference discussions.  I have made the comparison myself. It is a somewhat Read More...
Put perspective on both short and long term problems
I'm always a bit worried when someone has "the answer." Lot's of red flags go up when someone tells me: this is the problem and this is how you solve it. Perhaps I'm just that kind of person. I had a recent exchange with Alex Maclinovsky over at Sun. Read More...
Standardization works with a limited, and rational, scope
I've been on a roll lately, calling for the creating of a standardized approach to the partitioning of Line-of-Business apps . One reader commented that we are a long way from "plug and play" integration. The real answer is more subtle than that. Not Read More...
Standards and Innovation
When I opened my call for a Shared Global Integration Model , I expected some folks to say "we don't need that." What I didn't expect was the argument that standards are somehow a bad idea. It's hard to consider an argument against standards with a straight Read More...
The future can be seen, if we decide to look
Harry "Devhawk" Pierson, whom I'm glad to count among my friends, sent me an e-mail last week.  He mentioned that he was going to post on his blog about why my call for a shared global integration model was a fantasy.  "This will Read More...
Towards a shared global integration model
I'm renewing my call, now over a year old , for creating a single model for integrating all open, shared services. I'll talk about what this is, and then what benefits we get. A Shared Global Integration Model The idea behind a shared model is that we Read More...
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