Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Todd Biske I was recently working on a presentation and putting together a diagram in Powerpoint, when it occurred to me that the diagram was quickly turning into something familiar, a UML Context Diagram. Why was this realization important enough that I decided to write a blog about it? Looking back through my career history, it’s not […]
Kin Lane, the API Evangelist, had a really good post on maturing an API program, with the not-so-brief title of “I Have An API Deployed, And A Base Presence Established, What Can I Do To Help Me Get The Word Out?” You should definitely go read that because there’s some really good advice there. […]
I’ve been reviewing the FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, http://www.hl7.org/fhir) specification and they have an interesting concept called a compartment. Per the spec: Each resource may belong to one or more logical compartments. A compartment is a logical grouping of resources which share a common property. Compartments have two principal roles: Function as an access […]
Working inside an enterprise is constantly a challenge to balance competing demands and chart the best course forward. Unfortunately, typical corporate IT culture is one where everything is ruled by project delivery metrics: on time and on budget. Based on behaviors I’ve observed, this results in two common things: Efforts to minimize the teams involved. […]
I had an interesting conversation with some colleagues around resource design that I thought would be helpful to share. The starting point was a simple question: Should price generation be a HTTP POST or HTTP GET? There’s solid reasoning for either of them. Let’s start with HTTP GET. From a consumer’s perspective, a GET probably […]
TechTarget has published another one of my “Ask the Expert” columns. In this one, I offer up my thoughts on the differences between a Microservices Architecture and a SOA. In a nutshell, I think the microservices trend has moved things in the right direction, a direction that many of the SOA pundits were espousing back […]
A break from my normal tech-related posts. In September, I will participating for the second time in the Pedal the Cause bicycle ride in St. Louis. This great event raises money for cancer research at St. Louis Children’s Hospital and the Siteman Cancer Center in St. Louis. I filled out my rider profile in late […]
In this article from the Wall Street Journal, author Christopher Mims quotes mobile analytics company Flurry’s data that 86% of our time on mobile devices are spent in apps, and just 14% is spent on the web. While Christopher’s article laments that this is the “death of the web”, I’d like to put a different […]
My latest article for SearchSOA has just went live. It gives a series of tips for making project governance more efficient. You can read it here.
Think enterprise first. Such a simple statement, but yet it is so difficult to do. Admittedly, I am an enterprise architect, so it’s my job to think about the enterprise. In reality, it’s not just my job. If you are an employee, it’s your job, too. Why am I bringing this up? I believe that […]
While I have not yet embarked on writing another book, I have been published in a second book. The publisher of my book on SOA Governance, Packt Publishing, has released their first compendium title called, “Do more with SOA Integration: Best of Packt.” It features content from several of their SOA books and authors, including […]
I saw a tweet today, and while I don’t remember it exactly, it went something like this: “You must be successful with SOA to be successful with the cloud.” My first thought was to write up a blog about the differences between infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as […]