This is the fifth of a six part series of posts on the Agile SOA life cycle.
Here we will at look at IT and SOA Governance. With the introduction of
agile, spiral, and scrum development methodologies, the traditional waterfall
development approach of testing a near-finished app at the end of many Agile
development cycles won't be agile at all, as the elements of the application
are constantly changing. Traditional models of IT governance will also not
work. To aggravate testing, the service-oriented architecture (SOA) design
pattern is used to make IT more responsive to changes... (more)
I’ve been asked a number of times recently by industry peers and
technology journalists about “virtualization” as it relates to
SOA.
Well, there are in fact at least 3 distinct ways that you can use
virtualization concepts in SOA, so I think that it would be good for me to
give you a definition of those three, and then in the next few days I will
blog on each one of the... (more)
Jason English's Blog
With multiple ESB platforms, you are still providing a very good way to bring
underlying business applications and transaction systems to bear with an
integration and messaging framework, sometimes with business process
management as well. Yes they are different systems, but they can be pulled
together effectively as long as the validation is there, and as long as the ... (more)
Dan Woods provides an interesting analysis in Forbes, Parsing The Cloud, on
where Cloud Computing may be going next. He makes a good case that the cloud
will become more complex and diverse. He offers four drivers of this
diversity.
First, compliance is going to happen. Governments have already stepped in.
The Swiss banking laws dictate that computers storing customer information
must b... (more)