Folks,,
yesterday I was at the MuleSoft Summit in London.
Amaizing! OUR SOA is in the front of everything! Microservices are viewd as an intermediary step to Services. Moreover, they moved 1 step forward and started talking about a view on IT as a collection od temporary composed Business Units with technology resources, partially outsourced. They deliberately led the audients to the split IT and decomposed in the Business Service Units (BSU) - the model I described in 2013 in my book. That time I moved a bit further and argued that modern hierarchical management model is not suitable to the BSU- based organisation (this also led to the SO corp. culture, but it is a bit different story).
Now I do not hesitate any more when I describe an Architecture of Business via Business Capabilities with the resources represented by specialised BSUs instead of IT. And whem business flexibility is in re-compositions of BSUs instead of IT resources. [as MuleSoft shown their solutions is a mixture of BSU + outsourced technologies and related specialists taken from the external market]. They do not promote Microservices considering them a low-level technical details with certain ownership and legal problems.
Regards,
- Michael
Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2017 at 2:14 AM
From: "Ken Laskey" <klaskey@mitre.org>
To: "Mike Poulin" <mpoulin@usa.com>
Cc: soa-rm@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [soa-rm] Re: a pity conclusion
Michael,
I think we had the vision but we didn’t always elaborate on the enabling concepts. Others jumped in with ESBs and UDDI registries to fill the void, and those of us who saw these as more anti-patterns were overwhelmed by the middleware sales pitch. I think things like microservices and containers now provide (some of) the missing enablers. My gut feel is there are still missing pieces. However, the new generation are off rediscovering some of the things we knew (or at least expected) those ten years ago.
Ken
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Hi Folks,
I am coming to conclusion that our SOA RAF came ahead of time for about 10 years...
Only now practitioners started thinking about applications that use our SOA Services. They call them "serverless apps" because these aps are external aps not controlled by developers. For the developers, it is an extraordinary situation (caused by Clouds business ownership, which I wrote about 2009) - they do not have access to the server/service-provider code. Absurd, but this is the reality. Below, is one of the articles about this - kids going to the primary school from a kindergarten and found a hell of the world outside. - Boring.
Regards,
- Michael