Marc Rix

Not all services are created equal. It would be great if implementing SOA were simply a matter of applying a standard design pattern to all services. Once IT had identified and codified an optimal design standard, services could be stamped out in assembly-line fashion until the IT landscape had been transformed. Unfortunately, we don’t live in a cookie-cutter service Utopia. Different Strokes for Different Folks Services exist in all shapes, sizes, colors, and flavors. What’s more, they’re not all conducive to the same design approaches. Services are the modern digital incarnation of useful business functions: Get Employee, Create Purchase Order, Calculate Credit Score, Find Recommended Products. Any amount of work done by a system on behalf of another s... (more)

Bottom Line SOA

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has emerged as a promising harbinger of agility, but is certainly not without its critics. Although SOA is not a new concept, it's not a mainstream approach and has not yet demonstrated widespread, repeatable success. It's no surprise then that it's often met with passionate resistance. Given the lack of SOA case studies and the fact that it usually de... (more)