Thanks Michael,
The article is
interesting, but it is an oversimplification of the issues.
However, that said, it makes some key points. The chief point is
that the study they cite showed a perception by Business Units
that "Cloud computing and DevOps as implemented do not bring any
tangible business benefits." While this is debatable, it is
cited as a perception, not a fact. So we have to accept that it
is valid as a perception, so at the least, proponents of the
benefit of cloud computing and DevOps as characterized by this
article should listen and address those concerns.
I don't think that's
something we're addressing in our assessment of how the SOA-RM
holds up in light of the development of Microservices
Architecture (MSA) and what might best be done to update the
SOA-RM. Neither are we setting ourselves up to be proponents of
MSA, or Lean-Agile DevOps as an implementation approach. However
it is interesting to consider if their conclusion is accurate:
"IT leaders must acknowledge once and for all that the highly competitive digital business that's taking place is forcing BUs as to IT, to shift the concerns from technology efficiency to business value. In other words, they ask concrete contributions to business value.
IT Leaders must acknowledge this reality: cutting costs and speeding IT operations is essential, but it's not enough to help BUs make profit."
Actually, I think cutting costs equals increasing profit. It may be that the authors are trying to say that the profits realized by cutting costs and speeding IT operations are insufficient to justify the effort, although that doesn't make much sense to me. Perhaps they are saying that the increased profits are not as great as they thought were being promised?
Also, cloud computing
and DevOps != MSA. MSA as the logical extension of SOA
(including SOA as abstracted by the SOA-RM) includes cloud
computing and DevOps, but is much more, and that's what I think
we're concerned with delineating. I do think this article
highlights the shortcomings of many proponents of various
assemblies of the components that make up MSA as we've explored
it over these last many months. There does need to be provable
business value to MSA that I think is not being well represented
yet. However, I do think there is very provable ROI for shifting
to MSA, but analysis needs to be clearly done.
There's a lot to be
considered.
Cheers,
Rex
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<<Most BU leaders are fascinated by the promises of the recent IT innovations particularly cloud computing, DevOps, Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data. Yet, so far, they are disillusioned; they don't see the promised business benefits... The fact of the matter is, solution vendors and consulting firms focus their transformation effort on infrastructure and tools migration, and totally ignore the required organizational and operational transformations>> This ignorence has resulted in GDPR that can make Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data and Blockchain paralised for relatively long time.
I will be glad to provide a short explanation if needed.The next turn is on Microservices.Enjoy,- Michael PoulinSent: Wednesday, June 28, 2017 at 6:26 PM
From: "Ken Laskey" <klaskey@mitre.org>
To: soa-rm@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [soa-rm] Re: NIST Definition of Microservices, Application Containers and System Virtual MachinesTalked to the Anil Karmel and found- 180 is the same doc we commented on and our comments will be adjudicated- the Challenges and the Best Practices documents are the ones under internal review and Anil will let me know when they are released.KenOn Jun 28, 2017, at 12:20 PM, Ken Laskey <klaskey@mitre.org> wrote:<PastedGraphic-1.png>Currently internal review. Think this is what we commented on long ago. Going out for public review again.------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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