While re-reading the Microservices article by Martin Fowler, I was triggered by the following footnote #7: We can’t resist mentioning Jim Webber’s statement that ESB stands for “Egregious Spaghetti Box”. I viewed the presentation – from 2008 – in which Jim Webber and Martin Fowler...
“Micro Services” is a new buzzword in world of IT architects. As it talks about application components communicating over a network and contains “services”, it probably has something to do with SOA and integration. So I had to look into it. Let’s bulletize the description from...
As an integration consultant I work almost daily with XML messages. In my opinion in order to work efficiently with XML you need to have XML schemas. XML schemas makes it possible to validate your messages (including those hard to find typo’s in mappings), they...
Impressions of the first day of the Websphere Technical University 2014 in Düsseldorf The Websphere Technical University and Digital Experience conference is held in Düsseldorf from the 28th of october till the 31st. With over 16 rooms for each timeslot there is something to each person’s...
When running a lot of assets or a small footprint, memory consumption becomes a problem. Luckily the webMethods IS logs the memory usage in the stats logs (for those that don’t have more advanced monitoring like jmx). However these log files contain the usage as...
Last Monday I taught the SAI workshop “Integratie: van EAI over SOA tot Cloud”. I explained that there are many technical web services standards (WS-*). But that there is little attention from software vendors for the standardization of the functional side of web services. There are few standard XML schema...
IBM publishes loads of free Redbooks. But for the IBM BPM solution, there is another great – and free – source of information. i8c colleague Jef pointed me to the free book of Neil Kolban. Neil Kolban is an IBM employee who gathers all there is to know...
As an IT consultant, one spends quite some time getting to and from your project locations. Lately I’ve been spending quite some time on the train. Ideal moment to refresh my BPMN knowledge. I picked the book “Real-Life BPMN” on Amazon Kindle. The authors –...
Ever had to troubleshoot an SSL connection issue but overwhelmed by a “je ne sais quoi” feeling ? Let me try to ease your pain based on recent experience. Use case : Integration Server acts as an ssl client, connecting to a partner’s HTTPs server Certificates...
The IT infrastructure of large corporations is setting sail to a new promised land called Software-defined data center (SDDC). SDDC envisions to have all elements of the infrastructure — networking, storage, CPU and security – virtualized and delivered as a service. Naysayers argument that SDDC...