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Microservices Matters
The SOA blog with observations and commentary for software architects, developers and application development managers.
Recent Posts
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Parsing the Iaas and PaaS divide for microservices
- Features Writer 31 Dec 2018 -
Will Java bump .NET out of the microservices game?
- Features Writer 31 Oct 2018 -
Why ESB products aren't dead and shouldn't be buried
- Features Writer 30 Jul 2018
By Alan Earls Infrastructure as a services (IaaS) and platform as a services (PaaS) are both potential deployment paths for microservices. But there are big differences, and picking the right path ...
Written by Alan Earls, SearchMicroservices.com contributor The movement towards Java-based microservices led some to wonder whether this development might curtail the use of .NET and negatively ...
Industry experts say that ESBs are dead, but as Ira Gershwin wrote -- it ain't necessarily so. Enterprises still use ESB products because they handle requirements newcomer technologies can't. Also, ...
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Think practically about software modernization
- Features Writer 05 Jun 2018 -
API deployments on serverless frameworks catching on
- Features Writer 09 Feb 2018 -
When data APIs go neglected, business intelligence suffers
- Features Writer 01 Feb 2018 -
Machine learning skills are lacking, CIOs lament
- Site Editor 02 Nov 2017 -
Docker and HPE have an opinion on public cloud hosting
- Site Editor 16 Oct 2017 -
Oracle OpenWorld may put spotlight on serverless
- Site Editor 31 Aug 2017 -
Agile, DevOps ... are they only a dream?
- Site Editor 11 Aug 2017
Does your software modernization project have the wrong goals? This blog post takes a look at common drivers for modernization and how software teams should deal with legacy apps.
In a stealthy way, serverless APIs have moved out of the “shiny new thing” phase to being enterprise software developers’ favorite way to bypass development overhead when delivering applications, ...
Many businesses have mature API management practices in place for integration via REST APIs and application APIs. Unfortunately, those API strategies can create data silos for most business ...
Like it or not, it appears that the continuing skills gap that continues to plague many sections of the software world, including development, testing and more, has found a new victim: digital ...
Docker and Hewett Packer Enterprise (HPE) hit the road this month to demonstrate their recently launched Modernize Traditional Applications (MTA) program, designed to help enterprises update their ...
We've barely caught our breath from the emergence of containers, and already serverless is picking up as a notable trend in the world of enterprise applications. And big vendors are not wasting any ...
You can't go to an application development conference these days without the terms Agile and DevOps being thrown around more than free t-shirts from vendors. But for all our talk about these prized ...
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Oracle nudges enterprises towards using Docker
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Can DevOps help us save lives?
- Site Editor 17 Apr 2017 -
Do new development technologies put software architects on edge?
- Site Editor 31 Mar 2017 -
What will web apps do to family board game night?
- Site Editor 20 Mar 2017 -
NGINX announces NGINX Plus R12
- Site Editor 15 Mar 2017 -
Microservices and SOA: Making them get along
- Site Editor 10 Feb 2017 -
Web vs. native: The debate rages on
- Site Editor 28 Oct 2016 -
Should we say hello to DBPM?
- Site Editor 18 Oct 2016 -
To pair or not to pair (program)
- Site Editor 30 Sep 2016 -
Things that bug me: The Delta and Southwest crashes
- Site Editor 01 Sep 2016 -
At the intersection of Legos, Agile and SOA
- Senior News & Feature Writer 27 Jul 2016 -
Is digital transformation software making people sad?
- Site Editor 14 Jul 2016 -
QCon New York Sessions – Fault injection with Microsoft
- Site Editor 28 Jun 2016 -
Why the election should have you thinking about aPaaS
- Site Editor 03 Jun 2016 -
Enterprises, time to wake up and smell the APIs!
- Site Editor 12 May 2016 -
B2B integration: Now on your smartphone?
- Site Editor 26 Feb 2016 -
Tired of IT support calls? Here's a thought
- Senior News & Feature Writer 24 Feb 2016 -
Advanced DevOps, EA skills needed: Time to outsource?
- Features Writer 23 Feb 2016 -
Why mix data analytics with BPM and SOA?
- Features Writer 16 Feb 2016 -
How Zendesk sidesteps Silicon Valley's tech talent crunch
- Features Writer 31 Jan 2016 -
Why eye tracking isn’t part of Indiegogo UX pro’s user tests
- Features Writer 28 Jan 2016 -
Microservices: The new documentation nightmare?
- Site Editor 11 Dec 2015 -
Session Coverage: Mobile App Integration – Why is it Different?
- Site Editor 05 Nov 2015 -
Oracle's OpenWorld Announcements: What should we be excited about?
- Site Editor 02 Nov 2015 -
Connect the Now and API Economies: Must-have capabilities
- Features Writer 14 Oct 2015 -
The ugly side of container technology
- Site Editor 09 Oct 2015 -
How do you hire the right developers - and make them stay?
- Features Writer 01 Oct 2015 -
Will big data make kids smarter?
- Site Editor 25 Sep 2015 -
Five API management products worth noticing
- Site Editor 01 Sep 2015 -
Let's innovate: Uncovering hidden powers of the smartwatch
- Site Editor 03 Jul 2015 -
The I in BPM
- Features Writer 02 Jun 2015 -
Dig into these IOT development tips
- Features Writer 21 May 2015 -
Developing apps for space scientists calls for automation
- Features Writer 14 May 2015 -
Application modernization is a top priority worldwide in 2015
- Features Writer 30 Jan 2015
Oracle has pushed itself further into the Docker community by allowing developers to now pull images of their flagship databases and developer tools through the Docker Store. Effective immediately, ...
A former U.S. Marine wants software developers and architects to get more in touch with their feelings. In fact, their lives may very well depend on it. Ken Mugrage, the former Marine who is also a ...
While new technologies like microservices may be an exciting prospect for those strictly working at the development and programming level, these trends may weigh a little more heavily on the minds ...
Since the introduction of Monopoly in the early 1900s, board games became a staple in households all around the world, acting as a huge form of entertainment even into the radio, TV and even ...
NGINX, Inc. has announced the availability of NGINX Plus Release 12 (R12), the latest release of its application delivery platform. According to a press release from NGINX, R12 is aimed at ...
Enterprises may often be exposed to rhetoric regarding moving away a SOA-based software strategy and adopting a more microservices-focused approach. Whether you see microservices as the next ...
Web vs. native may be one of the biggest debates in the software development community. From a cost perspective alone, it seems like web will always win, but there are a lot of factors to consider ...
If there's one thing the business tech community is fond of, it's adding letters to acronyms. We've seen it with things like iBPM, MBaaS and DevSecOps. It looks like we may have a new one in our ...
Is programming in pairs really a desirable alternative to solo work? While arguments seem to lean in favor of pair programming, there are still those who question the value of forcing programmers ...
These days, passengers have to be worried about more than one kind of crash when they travel. Over the past two months we've seen two major airlines, Delta and Southwest, experience huge computer ...
So your Agile teams aren't working as efficiently as you'd like. Maybe you have specialists spread too thinly through your teams, or your product is just to big and broad for a traditional ...
A survey conducted by the software company BiZZdesign and The Open Group has revealed that while businesses are eager to jump into a "digital transformation," they may not necessarily be happy with ...
When it comes to testing software, many of today's organizations rely heavily on comprehensive testing, especially unit testing, to minimize the risk of outages. But in this session, Michalis ...
What do Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders and developers who use free aPaaS have in common?
Enterprises are stuck in the EDI mud, hanging onto old B2B integration technologies. Legacy EDI methods such as value-added networks (VANs) are costing many companies huge amounts of money in ...
"All of the hooks are there -- let's put it that way -- for mobile to play a greater role." Ann Grackin, ChainLink Research
When you're an IT department of two, with 150 outside sales folks plus 150 people in the building, everything just needs to work. Too bad that really doesn't happen very often. And Jesse Davis, ...
Midsized companies are struggling to hire tech talent, especially those with advanced DevOps and Enterprise Architect-level skills. Accelerance execs explain how IT pro outsourcing can help.
How organizations handle data analytics will be a big deal for SOA in 2016. Here we explore the steps developers and enterprise architects will need to take.
Find out how Zendesk's distributed application development team approach has lessened the impact of the developer shortage in Silicon Valley.
Indiegogo user research director, Aga Bojko, describes the user test methods she uses and why eye tracking isn't one of them.
At this year's JavaOne conference, I learned how microservices will impact development documentation issues. Here's what I want you to know.
This is part of a series covering sessions at Oracle OpenWorld and JavaOne, 2015 Any mobile app needs to integrate with back-end services, as pointed out by Joe Huang, a solution architect at ...
From Oracle OpenWorld, October 2015 "The world is changing," said Abid Ali Neemuchwala, group president and COO at Wipro Technologies at the Tuesday morning Oracle OpenWorld keynote session. Of ...
The terms "API Economy" and the "Now Economy" were coined in 2013 -- and both are going strong today thanks to consumer demands for instant gratification. Some call this phenomenon the Right-Now ...
If you're like me, you've probably heard a lot of hype surrounding application containers being used in the data centers of today's organizations. What I've found is that there are some important ...
The creative side of software development attracted Shalom Keynan to the profession. Now director of application development for Boston Heart Diagnostics, he is still fired up about improving ...
From Big Data Innovation Summit 2015, Boston I recently wrote a blog post about how big data is being leveraged in the public sector. But that is not where the use of big data analytics for the ...
With API management becoming increasingly important in the enterprise application development space, it's not a bad idea to consider your options when it comes to a vendor. Forrester recently named ...
Scouring the Internet reveals a number of heated debates about devices like the Pebble smartwatch. Is it useful? Useless? Will wearables become the way of the future – or an embarassing fad of the ...
Something old, business process management, has been made new again by the addition of a lowercase i. This three-part guide shows how and why adding cloud services and analytics to BPM will make ...
IoT is the latest thing in embedded systems technology, and it’s not a fad. IT research firm Gartner Inc. projects installation of 26 billion IoT units by 2020, resulting in $1.8 trillion in ...
A photograph from a Mars Rover may be breathtaking, but it will not deliver the complex data space scientists seek. Scientists like Washington University-St. Louis computer systems manager Thomas ...
Any organization NOT doing an application modernization project this year is in the minority. Over 70% of businesses worldwide are modernizing their application environments to handle mobile, cloud ...