Miko Matsumura Enterprise Software Executive Technologist

Inside of a Dog, it’s too Dark to Read: SOA and Business Variation

Groucho Marx once famously said “outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read” The amusement is that the word “outside” is semantically ambiguous. What’s less funny is the SOA Manifesto stating that they will follow the principle of “Pursue uniformity on the outside while allowing diversity on the inside.” Much like the Groucho Marx quote, the antecedent for “outside” is ambiguous....

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....

SOA Business Service Transcends Component, Process and Event Patterns

This is pretty much a word-for-word transcript of an interview I did with IT-Business Edge about Web Oriented Architecture (WOA) and Service Oriented Architecture http://www.itbusinessedge.com/item/?ci=41736 It reads a bit eccentrically because it’s a literal transcript, but if you know the SOA world pretty well, it gets my point across about what a Business Service is and how it transcends components, processes and event based architectural...