Saturday, December 27, 2008
A well-conceived data model is a necessary foundation for any service oriented architecture (SOA). Architects looking for proven data model templates and best practices will find few resources more valuable than the The Data Model Resource Book series. In the recently published third volume (Universal Patterns for Data Modeling), data modeling experts Len Silverston and [...]
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
While the pace of business change is never slow, many observers note that the current economic downturn, far from slowing the pace of innovation, is certain to increase the pace of change within many sectors. The growing attention given to “cloud computing” is one example of economic constraints driving such change.
In recent a post, I [...]
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Along with the growing cloud-computing hype is growing push back along the lines that cloud-computing is merely a new way for vendors to pitch the same offerings wrapped up in the latest buzzword. Shally Steckerl, a recruiting strategist and consultant, delivers a blistering post along these lines on ERE.net.
It is easy to sympathize with Shalley [...]
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Links to a few things I’m reading:
SOA Goverance and Canonical Model Development More than just consulting with service stakeholders, your information architect needs to actively collect test cases, usually in the form of real-world data instances representing the particular entities being managed. If done right, this test-driven development will avoid the “analysis paralysis” that [...]
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Everyday there is more written and presented about what makes a good API.
In recent years, much discussion related to APIs has focused on architectural approach (e.g., SOAP-based web services vs. RESTful ones) or even how a specific approach (like REST) is best applied. Beyond all the blog-blather about APIs (this post included among the blather), [...]
Thursday, December 4, 2008
The non-profit National Bureau of Economic Research officially announced on Monday what everyone has known for a long time – that the U.S. economy is in a recession. As the economy and stock market spiraled downward over the past year, at least one thing on the rise was “Cloud Computing” as a technology meme. [...]