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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
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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
- Site Editor 18 Dec 2017 -
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 -
Rounding up a simple definition of microservices
- Site Editor 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
- Site Editor 31 Aug 2017 -
Agile, DevOps ... are they only a dream?
- Site Editor 11 Aug 2017 -
What caused the applet to fall...and what's next?
- Site Editor 24 Jul 2017 -
Digital transformation puts middleware on the mind
- Site Editor 07 Jul 2017 -
OpenStack certification: Taking the COA exam
- Site Editor 09 Jun 2017 -
Oracle nudges enterprises towards using Docker
- Site Editor 19 Apr 2017 -
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 -
Looking back: SOA Talk in 2016
- Site Editor 17 Dec 2016 -
Web vs. native: The debate rages on
- Site Editor 28 Oct 2016 -
Should we say hello to DBPM?
- Site Editor 18 Oct 2016 -
What's the pulse on the BPM world?
- Site Editor 10 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 -
QCon New York 2016 : Sessions to consider, Day One
- Site Editor 11 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 -
Why a big data algorithm belongs on your dev agenda
- Features Writer 16 Mar 2016 -
Did APIs kill enterprise middleware?
- Site Editor 08 Mar 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 -
APIs: Making your robot dreams a reality
- Site Editor 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...
- Site Editor 22 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 -
Session Coverage: Best Practices for Maintaining Oracle Fusion Middleware
- 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 -
Really, how mature is mobile development?
- Site Editor 31 Aug 2015 -
The culture of microservices: Conway's law and two pizza boxes
- Site Editor 22 Jul 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 -
OMG DDS makes SOA approach available for real-time embedded systems
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The World Wide Web celebrates its 20th anniversary
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You cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness that created it
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What's the future of XML?
- TechTarget 21 Sep 2009
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 ...
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 ...
Some differ on when it was born, but by some measures the World Wide Web turned 20 last weekend. Tim Berners-Lee introduced his proposal for a "WorldWideWeb" to CERN on November 12, 1990. According ...
By Jack Vaughan Last week we called for readers to complete this sentence fragment: "You can't solve a problem … " The results provided an interesting look at the mind set needed to succeed as ...
by Jack Vaughan We should know that no technology fits all jobs over all times. But I will admit I thought XML might come close. The 'X' stands for 'eXtensible,' after all, so it seemed to have a ...