Entries from ArchBeat tagged with 'architecture'
Talking about the architecture that refuses to die
In the wake of Anne Thomas Mane's demonstration of the blogging value of bold pronouncements (See SOA is Dead, Long Live Services), tracking reaction to her article has been more fun than watching YouTube videos of skateboarders demonstrating Darwin's theories...
De-Babelizing Architecture
Jeff Davies has embarked on a project that offers great promise in improving communication around all things architecture. The first installment in the project offers concise yet thorough definitions and comparisons of point-to-point integration, enterprise application integration, and SOA.
Standards -- the new breed
Trond-Arne Undheim on the emergence of The Open Web Foundation and the implications for established standards and standards organizations: The Open Web Foundation is an interesting new initiative which shows that a new generation is interested in standards. They have...
Architects and Developers: Part of a System
I ran across UK-based site called Coding the Architecture that includes Mind the gap, an article that explores the relationship between developers and architects, and the perceived role of the architect: Our industry has a love/hate relationship with the software...
More Architecture Analogies
A few days ago I referenced Mary Beijleveld's post on the Approach Alliance blog, in which she offers a high-level explanation of IT architecture by comparing it to building architecture. Rajesh Raheja's recent post on The Official AIA Blog takes the shopworn Lego(tm) metaphor for SOA to task, and in the process provides an excellent drill-down that perfectly complements Mary's post...
Architecture: Beyond Functionality
There's architecture, and then there's architecture. A July 23rd post on the AMIS Technology blog offers some spot-on observations on the role user experience plays in IT architecture that gets beyond commodity to real competitive differentiation and value: Experience economy...
Architectural tools
Comparisons between physical architecture and digital architecture are inevitable. But in the first installment of a promised series of posts on the Approach Alliance blog, Mary Beijleveld offers a clear explanation of software architecture and the role of the architect,...
Architecture: Getting from as-is to to-be
The phenomenon Peter describes is the result of the complex interplay of technological and sociological forces. Technological innovation is a primary driver of social evolution, which in turn drives further technological innovation. Within the enterprise, organizational adaptation to the constant and accelerating pace of change ultimately involves IT. And that's what makes software architecture at every level a lot like being stuck on George Jetson's treadmill.
SOA Governance@work
SOA Governance guru Mike Stamback, my former boss at BEA, has launched his new OTN blog, SOA Governance@work. The title comes from a series of posts I wrote while at BEA, covering various aspects of SOA governance. Mike will pick...
Security: SOA's Velvet Rope
Part of the SOA Governance @ Work Series To describe security as an important part of SOA Governance is bit like describing water as an important part of the lives of fish, which is to say, it's an obvious point....
SOA Value: Reuse or Agility?
In SOA Spending Up, So Where is the Value?, Dave Linthicum makes an interesting point about the value of reuse in the overall SOA picture: The core issue is that reuse, as a notion, is not core to the value...
Son of SOA Governance and Architecture
In yesterday's post I mentioned experiencing some confusion about a point David Linthicum made in his post Too Much Focus on SOA Governance…Not Enough on Architecture. In a post today, David offers this clarification: SOA governance is indeed a part...
Effective SOA Governance keeps the focus on architecture
Thanks to a post by Joe McKendrick, InfoWorld blogger David Linthicum picked up on my recent post about an informal survey we conducted at an industry event late last year. In his post, David suggests that there is too much...
How about "Governance time?"
In his Real World SOA post, Defining SOA Governance, Dave Linthicum observes that within the broader topic of SOA governance, "there are really two flavors emerging: Design time and runtime." "It's important to understand the differences," Dave writes, "and that...
Survey Says... SOA Governance is Happening
Part of the SOA Governance @ Work Series Late last year, at an SOA-oriented IT industry event held in Las Vegas, visitors to the BEA booth were asked to fill out a short survey on how their respective companies address...
The SOA Governance Prescription
Part of the SOA Governance @ Work series A significant part of getting your SOA to do what it's supposed to do is getting the people involved in the SOA to do what they're supposed to do. While you're thinking...
Wielding the Carrot and the Stick
Part of the SOA Governance @ Work series While noodling around the A2A blogs I found this bit of wisdom quoted in one of Steve Bennett's old posts: “Hope is not a viable SOA strategy.” I don't know the...
Peeling the Policy Onion
Part of the SOA Governance@Work series In our last episode we took a look at how policies relate to various aspects of SOA. In this episode we'll peel the policy onion a bit more to look at what policies are...
Policies: The Nuts and Bolts of SOA Governance
Part of the SOA Governance@Work series Conventional wisdom holds that there is a lot of confusion about SOA. I can’t understand why -- I googled “What is SOA?” and found more than 27,000 definitions. I also googled “What is truth?”...
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