Enterprise Integration Patterns: Gregor's RamblingsGregor's Ramblings on Enterprise IntegrationWill the Real Asynchrony Please Stand Up- (Found July 2, 2008 ) On a recent project we developed a Web services framework that supports asynchronous callbacks and asynchronous invocation with polling. The difficulties we had describing what we were trying to do to my fellow ThoughtWorkers on other projects prompted me to discuss the different forms of asynchrony in a little more detail.http://www.eaipatterns.com/ramblings/28_asynchrony.html Microsoft TechEd 2005 Digest- (Found July 2, 2008 ) This year I actually missed putting in a proposal for TechEd. However, that has not kept me from actually presenting :-) So I am here fighting the Orlando Summer humidity together with 11000 other geeks and am actually having a good time.http://www.eaipatterns.com/ramblings/29_teched.html Configure This!- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Having been to a number of conferences and their attached expo floors recently it was not surprising that I was not able to escape the line "this tool does not require programming, everything is done through configuration". Hearing this tag line for the third or fourth time got me wondering, "what really is the difference between coding and configuring"http://www.eaipatterns.com/ramblings/30_configure.html TechEd 2005 Europe: Event-Driven Architectures- (Found July 2, 2008 ) I just returned from Microsoft TechEd Europe in Amsterdam. I was lucky enough to present on event-driven architectures in front of almost 600 people. Since multiple people asked me for the source files, I figured I'd post a quick summary of the talk, including the source files.http://www.eaipatterns.com/ramblings/31_techededa.html New Packaging, Same Good Content- (Found July 2, 2008 ) As many people have already heard, I changed employers. Before the rumor mill completes its work entirely, here a few comments from my end.http://www.eaipatterns.com/ramblings/32_google.html Starbucks Does Not Use Two-Phase Commit- (Found July 2, 2008 ) People often criticize asynchronous messaging solutions as too complicated and cumbersome. Or, they believe distributed solutions cannot be successful unless they include a distributed transaction model. There is little doubt that asynchronous solutions require us to think in new ways as we have to deal with concurrency, out-of-sequence issues, correlation and other. However, the real world is full of examples of asynchronous processes that deal successfully with exactly the same issues. We...http://www.eaipatterns.com/ramblings/18_starbucks.html ACM Middleware Conference: Pub-Sub and Related Topics- (Found July 2, 2008 ) I just attended the ACM Middleware conference in Toronto (I thought a 12 day tutorial in integration patterns). This conference is more of an academic events when compared to some of the purely commercial conferences like JavaOne. It was interesting to see what academia are working on these days in the areas of middleware and SOA.http://www.eaipatterns.com/ramblings/17_acmconference.html Doodleware- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Many integration tools offer graphical development tools. Do they really make integration easierhttp://www.eaipatterns.com/ramblings/02_doodleware.html Hub and Spoke or Zen and the Art of Message Broker Maintenance- (Found July 2, 2008 ) The Hub-and-Spoke concept manifests itself in many ways in integration solution. Like any popular concept, it can sometimes cause as much confusion as it provides help.http://www.eaipatterns.com/ramblings/03_hubandspoke.html What Makes a Good Integration Developer- (Found July 2, 2008 ) When we assess the quality of a software engineer we don't look as much how long he has worked with a specific language but rather whether he or she has a good grasp of the underlying models and techniques, such as OO design, systems architecture. Still most EAI job offers sound like a software catalog: "x years TIBCO IntegrationManager", "y years Vitria Businessware" etc. etc. Some thoughts on what we should be really looking for...http://www.eaipatterns.com/ramblings/04_skills.html |