Posts by: Jeff Kennedy

Experience Mapping vs Heavy BRUF

After spending three months alone in a windowless-but-air-conditioned office, the business analyst emerged with a two-hundred-page document of business, functional, and non-functional requirements.  A short time later, her contract concluded, the document was discarded because it was useless — it was useless…

Idempotence and the Dead-Letter Office

“Dead Letter Office” is a lovely and hearty shiraz sourced from the McLaren Vale and Padthaway wine regions of South Australia.  While drinking a bottle of Dead Letter Office recently i started to sketch this post about asynchronous message-based integration architectures.  The…

Cloud Standards, Brokerage, and The French Laundry

The emergence and the importance of the role cloud-service brokerages have must be achieved against a complex backdrop that is difficult to negotiate, as it includes: cloud roaming data sovereignty throughput expectations reliability requirements scalability decisions geographical considerations costing models security capabilities…
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