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Move to the New iTKO Blog
After more than 3 years of blogging, we've finally moved our discussion on SOA Testing, Validation and Virtualization to a dedicated new home within the itko.com site. So point your RSS feeds and news pages to: http://blog.itko.com. The new blog wi
Can Virtual Environments take Performance & Load Testing?
We've talked a lot in previous posts about how the practice and technology of Virtualization really has legs -- it keeps moving forward, from hardware virtualization, virtual test beds, to virtual endpoints, to actually simulating the behavior of the
WS-FalseSecurity: Are you at risk?
In our previous post, we mentioned how the notion of standards in SOA can be just the opposite. This is largely because the standards are generally generated by whatever tool you are using to create services – it’s not something you construct by hand
Wring ROI out of your UDDI Registry/Repository by plugging in SOA Validation…
We’ve been talking about validating SOA Governance approaches for three years now, but surprisingly, we have found that very few enterprise IT shops of any serious scale are actually using them to their potential at this point. I had lunch yesterday
So you have a SOA Management dashboard. How do you drive it?
Lately we've done a lot of research and publishing on how Dev & QA teams can ensure better quality throughout the software development and release lifecycle. But what about the IT Operations guys? It seems we are encountering a disconnect bet
The Continuous 'C'
Several weeks back I gave you a real life experience that typified why our test strategy we call the Three C’s has Complete as one of those C’s. This blog will give you a different real-life experience on why Continuous deserves “C” status. I was m
Oracle buys BEA - Nice time to get a check-up
The biggest news in software may have already hit this year, but it's not like we didn't hear it coming for the past few months. Oracle finally makes good on its intent to buy BEA at $8.5B: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120048691486294361.html To
European SOA: Ahead of the Curve?
I'm in Germany right now, looking forward to a session at ZapThink's Practical SOA in Frankfurt event tomorrow. I'll be joining some peers from companies like T-Mobile, Swisscom, Novartis and SwissLife who are going to be sharing their own SOA succes
Feeling Crushed under the SOA Data requirement?
One of the most difficult obstacles to attaining enterprise-ready SOA is the sheer scale of the systems and data that need to be managed. To test the actual results of an SOA application, we need a very realistic set of data – both positive and ne
IT Predictions for 2008 -- Are Some Too Late?
Yes, there are many pundits proffering predictions on the coming year, but these are ours. In fielding these over lunch at iTKO, we couldn't help but notice a few of them would have been last year's predictions as well... but, even in IT, not all cha
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Best Practices for Building SOA Applications
vu tuan anh wrote: This is interesting article, I'd like it. Could you send me some SOA documents to my e-mail? Thanks alot.
SOA Feature Story: Real-Time SOA Starts with the Messaging Bus!
Casual Visitor wrote: TCP does not line up a message on one connection after a file transfer on another connection. Each TCP connection forms its own in-order transfer. If you want to convince people to buy your product, you should avoid putting incorrect information in the ...
SOA Governance vs SOA Management
Andrew Dennis wrote: Sean, Thanks for the insightful article about the meaning of governance. I have been collecting examples of SOA Governance definitions and metaphors, many of which are both colorful and even useful. You might find them of interest. They are at: SOA Gove...
Why Enterprise Architects Continue to Fall Short with SOA
IT Yoda wrote: I whole-heartedly agree, and will offer something that I didn't see a lot of, in your article: suggestions for how to start going about correcting the problem :-) First, EAs should consider looking at EA frameworks (i.e. TOGAF, Zachman, etc.) and EA-level tool...
Service Oriented Infrastructure (SOI)
amanfromMars wrote: Yoav, Seems to me like your Planning a New World Order Program or Failing having the Wherewithall for that, most certainly Providing the Proxy Facility for one to be Seamlessly Virtually Integrated into the Intelligence Environment. MeThinks for that to be T...
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