The Cloud Transition The Cloud may not be in-your-face. But it is pervasive, and gradually taking over many aspects of our traditional IT systems. Companies are not yet making wholesale transitions from existing data-centres and on-premise assets to Cloud. However, when infrastructure reviews occur, whether to upgrade or add new resources, the Cloud beckons. Questions […]
Factory Approach to Service Engineering – Preamble
World of Perspectives We all see the world from different perspectives, and the sum of perspectives help us to get a better/fuller understanding of our world. In this article, we share a perspective on engineering services for business. This perspective can be summarised as: Intelligent Laziness – strategies to achieve equal or better productivity with […]
Factory Approach to Service Engineering – Business
From Technology to Business In a previous article, I looked at how some metaphors can be used to understand the engineering of software (services). Of the five listed below, I introduced the first four. Factory Pattern Framework Process Service The first three have a clear technical focus; the fourth is a gateway between the technical […]
The Fundamentalist SOA
Rhema-Bytes: The Fundamentalist SOA Fundamentalism in SOA is to see everything as a service. Raise this thinking to the strategic level and one starts to ask questions of services, such as: “is this a core competence”, and “do we provide it as effectively as others”. At the technological level, the questions that come to mind […]
Rhema Bytes: The Business to SOA Nexus
I have a little confession to make, one of many; it is that I maintain a simplistic view of business. In my simple view, a business starts as an idea or vision, depending on your Weltanschauung, and this idea articulates some value (services or products) that the business will provide to the community – Business […]
Factory Approach to Service Engineering
Rhema Bytes: A Factory Approach to Service Engineering When most people think of a factory, the imagery that is conjured is one of mindless repetition, and the generation of large numbers of low-value items. A good example is a nut & bolt factory. In this world, value accrues to the investors from the little profit […]
SOA Services Abstraction
There are many ways to conceptualise SOA services within an enterprise, and there are many ways to organise the implementation units. Here is an illustration of the SOA services architecture of a recent client. I think it is a tidy model, but as in my recent post on governance, “Rhema Bytes: Governance a Rope that […]
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