Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Todd Biske: Outside the Box » Blog Archive » Don’t Go On an IT Diet, Change Your Behavior Todd Biske on IT investment in the downturn: "Priorities have shifted to where cost containment and cutting are at the top of the list. While the knee-jerk reaction is to stop investing in any long-term initiatives, this could be a risky approach. If I don’t eat for 4 days, I may quickly drop the weight I need to, but guess what? I still need to eat. Not eating for 4 days will only make...

The Application Server and SOA | JAVA Developer's Journal "While a governance process and an enterprise service bus may both distinguish SOA from other architectural approaches and be crucial in SOA's success,"writes JDJ's Larry cable, "the focus on these distinguishing and valuable characteristics of SOA seem to overshadow all else - so much so that one could be forgiven for forgetting the 'services' themselves, and the crucial role and capabilities of the container(s) and...

Presentations from Architect Day Boston (Final update) » Oracle Mix All presentations from OTN Architect Day in Boston (2/4/09) are now available on the OTN Architect Day group on Oracle Mix. (tags: otn architect architectday presentations)

The Myth of "Right" (SOA Thinker) For an architect, the appropriate response to change, according to Jeff Davies, "is to design software systems and architectures that are flexible. They should not be resistant to change, they need to be resilient to change. This is the fundamental driver behind SOA. The world is changing quickly, your business is changing quickly, you need an architecture that can adapt quickly to these changes." (tags: soa oracle otn) Blog: SOA Governance...

There were two big clues that the first OTN Architect Day, held in Boston last week, was a big success. The first was the larger-than-expected turnout, despite yet another day of frigid temperatures in what the Boston natives I spoke with described as the worst winter in memory. The second clue was that the typical 2:00 pm fade-out that often thins the herd at similar events never happened. By then the roundtable and whiteboarding sessions were in full swing and no one I saw...

The first installments in the Architect Roundtable series of podcasts is now available. This first program features panelists Eddie Awad and Jeff Davies in a discussion of communication issues. Listen: Part 1, Part 2 Next up is a discussion of Enterprise 2.0 and Social Media for architects. Panelists for this program are Billy Cripe, Vince Casarez, and Oracle ACE Bex Huff. I'll record the podcast on Tuesday, 2/17.  Got a question for the panel? Submit it through the Architect...

A day with Oracle | Technology Cafe Blogger Rajiv Narula offers his perspective on OTN Architect Day in Boston, with high marks for presentations by Cameron Purdy, Clemens Utschig-Utschig, and Dr. Paul Dorsey -- and the food. (tags: eda architectday, coherence, soa,)

IT needs a return to the art of architecture |Real World SOA | David Linthicum | InfoWorld Architecture, according to David Linthicum, "is about thinking through the strategy and the approach to IT and then moving to the desired end state holistically. There are many layers, including architecture at the micro-domain or project instance, and architecture at the macro-domain or enterprise-wide. The trick is to define the macro-domain first, then move toward the...

Why the wrong SOA architects were fired |Real World SOA | David Linthicum | InfoWorld David Linthicum thinks that "many who are good with SOA are not as good with people and easy targets for outplacement. Therefore, many SOA teams are left much less productive than they were before the 'nerd' was shown the door. " (tags: soa communication architects layoffs) HOW TO: Survive a Social Media Revolt "It often stuns me," says Muhammad Saleem, "to see how poor social media entrepreneurs...