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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 -
Four questions to ask about your DevOps strategy
- TechTarget 18 Dec 2017 -
Machine learning skills are lacking, CIOs lament
- TechTarget 02 Nov 2017 -
Docker and HPE have an opinion on public cloud hosting
- TechTarget 16 Oct 2017 -
Rounding up a simple definition of microservices
- TechTarget 11 Sep 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 ...
There's a lot of information about DevOps out there, making it hard to determine exactly what it means. However, there are still key principles you can stick to in order to achieve success through ...
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 ...
Breaking your monolith out to a distributed architecture is certainly a complex task. But having a solid perspective of what microservices are at a basic level can go a long way in terms of forming ...
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Oracle OpenWorld may put spotlight on serverless
- TechTarget 31 Aug 2017 -
Agile, DevOps ... are they only a dream?
- TechTarget 11 Aug 2017 -
What caused the applet to fall...and what's next?
- TechTarget 24 Jul 2017 -
Digital transformation puts middleware on the mind
- TechTarget 07 Jul 2017 -
OpenStack certification: Taking the COA exam
- TechTarget 09 Jun 2017 -
Oracle nudges enterprises towards using Docker
- TechTarget 19 Apr 2017 -
Can DevOps help us save lives?
- TechTarget 17 Apr 2017 -
Do new development technologies put software architects on edge?
- TechTarget 31 Mar 2017 -
What will web apps do to family board game night?
- TechTarget 20 Mar 2017 -
NGINX announces NGINX Plus R12
- TechTarget 15 Mar 2017 -
Microservices and SOA: Making them get along
- TechTarget 10 Feb 2017 -
Looking back: SOA Talk in 2016
- TechTarget 17 Dec 2016 -
Web vs. native: The debate rages on
- TechTarget 28 Oct 2016 -
Should we say hello to DBPM?
- TechTarget 18 Oct 2016 -
What's the pulse on the BPM world?
- TechTarget 10 Oct 2016 -
To pair or not to pair (program)
- TechTarget 30 Sep 2016 -
Things that bug me: The Delta and Southwest crashes
- TechTarget 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?
- TechTarget 14 Jul 2016 -
QCon New York Sessions – Fault injection with Microsoft
- TechTarget 28 Jun 2016 -
QCon New York 2016 : Sessions to consider, Day One
- TechTarget 11 Jun 2016 -
Why the election should have you thinking about aPaaS
- TechTarget 03 Jun 2016 -
Enterprises, time to wake up and smell the APIs!
- TechTarget 12 May 2016 -
Why a big data algorithm belongs on your dev agenda
- Features Writer 16 Mar 2016 -
Did APIs kill enterprise middleware?
- TechTarget 08 Mar 2016 -
B2B integration: Now on your smartphone?
- TechTarget 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 -
APIs: Making your robot dreams a reality
- TechTarget 29 Jan 2016 -
Why eye tracking isn’t part of Indiegogo UX pro’s user tests
- Features Writer 28 Jan 2016 -
There's something about HTML5...
- TechTarget 22 Jan 2016 -
Microservices: The new documentation nightmare?
- TechTarget 11 Dec 2015 -
Session Coverage: Mobile App Integration – Why is it Different?
- TechTarget 05 Nov 2015 -
Session Coverage: Best Practices for Maintaining Oracle Fusion Middleware
- TechTarget 05 Nov 2015 -
Oracle's OpenWorld Announcements: What should we be excited about?
- TechTarget 02 Nov 2015 -
Connect the Now and API Economies: Must-have capabilities
- Features Writer 14 Oct 2015 -
The ugly side of container technology
- TechTarget 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?
- TechTarget 25 Sep 2015 -
Five API management products worth noticing
- TechTarget 01 Sep 2015 -
Really, how mature is mobile development?
- TechTarget 31 Aug 2015 -
The culture of microservices: Conway's law and two pizza boxes
- TechTarget 22 Jul 2015 -
Let's innovate: Uncovering hidden powers of the smartwatch
- TechTarget 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 -
What will be big with SOA in 2015?
- Content strategist 31 Dec 2014 -
JBoss middleware and OpenShift unite with xPaaS offerings
- Content strategist 11 Nov 2014 -
Do IT and business leaders need an attitude adjustment?
- Content strategist 20 Oct 2014 -
Is UML 2.5 living up to expectations?
- Content strategist 22 May 2014 -
Pre-modernization assessment imperative for successful application modernization
- Content strategist 26 Feb 2014 -
Social media: An architect's friend or foe?
- Content strategist 11 Nov 2013 -
Oracle Open World speaker, Luis Weir, focuses on what matters: the customer
23 Sep 2013 -
Limelight is now on enterprise mobile application development
12 Jul 2013 -
Not everything can be a DIY hit, even when it comes to OSGi
29 Mar 2013 -
Modularizing legacy Java apps: Don't reinvent the wheel
27 Mar 2013 -
Another push for HTML5 mobile adoption
- Senior News Writer 19 Mar 2013 -
Knoernschild's "Java Application Architecture": A brilliant breakdown on modularity
- TechTarget 18 Jan 2013 -
Big data tackles cold pizza, or Real-time gets real
- Senior News Writer 09 Jan 2013 -
SOA best practice: prepare for unknown futures
- Senior News Writer 29 Dec 2012 -
HP sees investment in DevOps as strategic move
- Senior News Writer 04 Dec 2012 -
The value of API management
- TechTarget 29 Nov 2012 -
Meeting the growing need for apps
- Senior News Writer 28 Nov 2012 -
SOA influences modern data integration
- Senior News Writer 27 Nov 2012 -
Axway goes after Vordel
- Senior News Writer 08 Nov 2012 -
OMG DDS makes SOA approach available for real-time embedded systems
- Senior News Writer 18 Oct 2012 -
SOASTA buys LogNormal; The goal? Gain mobile end-user point of view
- Senior News Writer 02 Oct 2012 -
JavaOne 2012 kicks off
- Senior News Writer 27 Sep 2012 -
Goodbye to three-tier computing?
- Senior News Writer 20 Sep 2012 -
Fat Fractal enters the BaaS fray
- Senior News Writer 13 Sep 2012 -
Choice Hotels rethink IT architecture – employ middleware, SOA, BPM
- Senior News Writer 07 Sep 2012 -
Thomas Erl discusses upcoming SOA, Cloud and Service Technology Symposium
- Senior News Writer 05 Sep 2012 -
Skills for big data: Hadoop, Pig, Cassandra and more
- Senior News Writer 20 Aug 2012 -
Banking on ESBs for agility, more value added services
- Senior News Writer 02 Aug 2012 -
Using the Web as an application integration platform
- Senior News Writer 26 Jul 2012 -
Rules, events and processes meet
- Senior News Writer 11 Jul 2012 -
Caterpillar tackles transformation with portfolio tools
- Senior News Writer 26 Jun 2012 -
Red Hat unveils the JBoss Way, drives toward mobile, cloud and big data
21 Jun 2012 -
Reporter’s notebook: Hadoop, cloud testing and more
- Senior News Writer 13 Jun 2012 -
Gartner: Only business-driven EA will deliver value
- Senior News Writer 24 May 2012 -
Middleware applications on display at FuseSource CamelOne
- Senior News Writer 21 May 2012 -
Progress plans to jettison middleware offerings, focus on OpenEdge
- Senior News Writer 25 Apr 2012 -
Oracle and Google have at it, as APIs go to court
- Senior News Writer 20 Apr 2012 -
Cloud computing, virtual image sprawl and labor costs
- Senior News Writer 28 Mar 2012 -
From incubator to top-level project: Evolution of Apache Deltacloud
- TechTarget 02 Mar 2012 -
When business processes meet software services
- Senior News Writer 14 Feb 2012 -
Mobile middleware platform uses open source ESB and BAM
03 Feb 2012
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 ...
Recently I was tasked with rewriting TechTarget's definition for "applet," one that I admittedly was not too familiar with. But after a little research, I realized I must have interacted with ...
However organizations choose to interpret the meaning behind digital transformation, there is at least one thing that appears consistent: it's got business decision makers thinking about their ...
Are you interested in achieving OpenStack certification? Not sure if it's worth it? Here we explore why it's worth considering taking the Certified OpenStack Administrator (COA) exam and what the ...
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 ...
As we get closer to the year's end, let's take a look at some of most popular topics we've covered on SOA Talk in 2016. Based on your readership, here are the top five most popular posts this year: ...
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 ...
Here at SearchSOA, we've got an eye on BPM. And this month, that's our editorial theme. In light of that, here's a look at a few interesting developments in the BPM world that have occurred ...
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 ...
Got your QCon session schedule ready yet? If not, it's worth making a plan to make sure you're getting the most out of this conference that you possibly can. Of course I recommend going to both of ...
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 ...
Learn how shared algorithms, like public APIs, eliminate a build-your-own (BYO) bottleneck in the application development process.
Is traditional, software-based middleware dead, or just resting? Some say APIs are fit to do the job better and that enterprise middeware is on the way out (if not gone already).
"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.
Using APIs to make your own robots? Yes, please.
Indiegogo user research director, Aga Bojko, describes the user test methods she uses and why eye tracking isn't one of them.
Developers are raving about HTML5 - but why? And is it all it's cracked up to be?
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 ...
This is part of a series covering sessions at Oracle OpenWorld and JavaOne, 2015 This was a good session for new or intermediate users of Oracle's Fusion middleware. One of the first things Ramirez ...
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 ...
"There are two types of companies out there: those who use mobile appropriately and those who are still scratching their heads." - Matthew David, Senior Manager of Mobile Management at ...
The idea of microservices appears to be quickly gaining fame among today's enterprises, however some IT experts warn that organizations may not be "culturally" prepared to leverage this new ...
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 ...
With 2014 coming to an end, we close the door on an eventful year. Technologies such as Hadoop, Docker and microservices made their way into our everyday lexicon. Some tried and true predictions ...
Integrating applications deployed in traditional enterprises or data centers with those in the cloud is a common headache enterprise architects face. Red Hat recently released OpenShift Enterprise ...
It's not uncommon for IT and business leaders to want to reap the benefits of having employees collaborate amongst each other, but the same perspective isn't always seen when it comes to sharing ...
Nearly six months after the release, the jury seems to still be out as to how, or even if, UML 2.5 is doing what it's intended to. The goal of the update wasn't to change the language, but to ...
Organizations have heard it time and time again; application modernization can yield significant cost-savings. Just because business leaders have this fact drilled into their head doesn't mean they ...
Social media isn't just being viewed as a way to connect with others for fun, but as an integral part of an enterprise's makeup, research indicates. Data from IT consulting firm Tata Consultancy ...
Luis Weir, book author and director of Oracle Solutions at HCL tech, will be a speaker at Oracle Open World. An expert on innovative management, he spoke with me about the challenges that ...
Enterprise mobile applications are stepping into the spotlight, seriously catching the eyes of clients looking to gain more insight into their consumers, according to StackMob, a cloud-based ...
Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. That was a key takeaway from Zuhlke Engineering's Tim Ward's EclipseCon 2013 session March 28 in Boston on Enterprise OSGi. Do It Yourself ...
For enterprise architects, taking an "out with the old, in with the new" mentality can be tempting when modularizing large legacy Java applications, but that could be a mistake. That's according to ...
Maxine Giza Want a challenge? Add the avalanche of enterprise mobile applications to DevOps teams' already-daunting integration workload, Paul Kopacki says. He's Sencha's vice president of ...
Jack Vaughan Running through the history of computing is a quest for modularity. We curse it when it doesn’t work; we take it for granted when it does. Long ago, software engineers began to seek ...
Like ''cloud'' before it, ''big data'' is a nebulous term veiling some actual trends. Google and Amazon have been startling online successes, and much of their achievement seems to stem from ...
A recent piece by Stephanie Mann looks at SOA design issues today. After over ten years of SOA, some best practices are still emerging. Among the notables Mann spoke with is Robert Daigneau. With ...
This year, Hewlett-Packard has continued its efforts to stake out a big presence for its tools in the DevOps world – where many organizations see an opportunity to streamline, rationalize and speed ...
Web APIs are multiplying as more retailers, media groups, governments and financial services firms start exposing them. At the same time, many companies are still resistant to API management, ...
IT is changing. And certain companies are going to face the changes better than others, Andy Kyte, Gartner vice president and research fellow, told a crowd at the Application Architecture, ...
SOA is far from being the new technology kid on the block. But once it was. Now it is an older kid, and a practical approach to fielding a host of other new technologies. It should not be ...
B2B software company Axway said it will acquire Vordel, the SOA security gateway company that has recently come to include cloud, mobile and social networking support in its offerings. The move ...
Integrating disparate computing systems is by no means an easy task. Integration is one of the most important reasons to focus on Web services in enterprise architecture. Standards like SOAP and ...
Cloud and mobile test service SOASTA has acquired LogNormal, makers of Web performance tools. That news accompanies SOASTA’s release of mPulse, a real-time user monitoring tool that itself derives ...
As JavaOne 2012 kicks off in San Francisco Sept 30, industry experts and practitioners gather to learn about the newest in Java standards, best practices and developments. New this year are a ...
Software in the original mainframe days was all glommed together. Why not? Who was looking? Sometimes, reluctantly, some structure came about. Even in the early mid-range days, code was built up ...
What has sometimes been described as mobile middleware has taken a new tack. Now, the idea of Backend as a Service (BaaS) has begun to take off in the mobile application development space. ...
Hoteliers were among the first businesses to turn to information technology. Now, their once-new foundational computers have become legacy systems that can block in the way of delivering new ...
Later this month, experts and authors from around the globe will gather in London for the fifth annual SOA, Cloud and Service Technology Symposium. This year’s conference agenda reflects aspects of ...
Q: What is a data scientist? A: It’s a DBA from California. The joke belies the fact that the world of big data skills right now is pretty much topsy-turvy. If you would you like to look at a short ...
The once staid and steady field of banking is looking for greater agility in rolling out new software and services. As a result, Enterprise Service Buses (ESBs) are being deployed as part of ...
While much discussion these day centers on APIs, some players suggest that the Web is all the API you really need. That could be said to be part of the thinking behind the Kapow Katalyst ...
Update - Integrated process, rules and event capabilities are something of a holy grail for today’s high-powered corporations. Such capabilities are being pursued in open source software. For ...
With well over $100 billion in revenues, Caterpillar, Inc. is the world's largest manufacturer of construction and mining equipment. It has also been accumulating acquisitions at a frenzied pace in ...
Yesterday, JBoss and RedHat made a few preliminary product announcements before the upcoming combination JBoss World / Red Hat Summit 2012 event scheduled for June 26-29. Their primary push was for ...
Perhaps the most famous Big Data technology, Hadoop has gained a following over the years led by Web giants such as Yahoo and Facebook. As time goes on, Hadoop adoption continues to climb. Still, ...
According to Gartner, a host of factors—ranging from cloud and social to big data and mobile technologies—are altering the EA landscape. As a result of those changes, enterprise architects may have ...
Middleware integration developers seldom get accolades. Neither do plumbers. After all, you don’t think about the plumbing until it breaks. The same goes for middleware technology. Integration ...
UPDATED - Long-time SOA player Progress Software disclosed plans today to divest important SOA and BPM holdings. In a prepared statement, the company said going forward it would focus on “core” ...
Apps have crept into broader public consciousness in recent years thanks to mobile applications, and now APIs are getting wider attention. In fact, Java APIs stand as a very central part of the ...
COMMENTARY - The virtual machine image, a powerful driver of cloud computing, may be described as a tiger few can easily ride. The VMs are proliferating. Earlier this month, no less a personage ...
The Apache Software Foundation recently announced that Apache Deltacloud has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a top-level project. “We are thrilled to have the project’s growth and ...
When driving school instructors go to action films like “Fast and Furious” you can bet their impression differs from that of would-be race drivers in the same audience. “They should fasten their ...
Transport for London, the transportation authority for England's capital city, recently revamped their rider information services with an open source middleware platform. Application development ...