Miko Matsumura Platform Software Executive Technologist

ESB Hate Storm

Lots of hate for the ESB lately. Everything from Joe McKendrick’s E-s-Busted to Dave Linthicum’s ESB Hurting SOA, we are in the midst of a full-fledged backlash. I’m certainly sympathetic to these views. The SOA “patient” is already pretty sick. Years of Tribal IT battles, “quick fix” technology solutions that dont interoperate and create more hassles than they fix, project funded IT driven by inconsistent objectives and just plain years of abuse....

Entertaining and heartfelt post about REST

I like the passion, style, and urgency of this post and concur that IT is going through a pretty major upheaval right now. Let me start by saying that IT is dying. No, Nick Carr did not kill it. No, it is not dying because “It does not matter”. It is dying because IT can’t do its job. IT can’t do it’s job because ever since we left the mainframe era IT has been served sub-optimal technologies, developed in a hurry by people largely incompetent (on the business...