ESBs Cohabitating in SOA: Controversial?

Blowing Smoke? 3 Tests for the Cloud's Future

iTKO Chalk Talk: Event-Driven SOA
How do you ensure successful delivery today's distributed SOA types of applications, when you don't even know exactly how they are structured? Understanding the challenges of an "Event Driven SOA" model means discovering when and how decoupled applications kick off business processes, and how to validate that the business process is complete as messages cross several technologies.iTKO Chalk Talk: "Event Driven SOA" (2009, YouTube video 5:57)iTKO LISA founder and Chief Geek John Michelsen describes how Event-Driven SOA came to be a common architectural pattern in today's modern, d

The Future of Cloud is the Past of SOA: DBTA article
I realize I might take some heat from a few Cloud pundits for comparing admittedly disparate items in this new article in Database Trends & Analysis: "The Future of Cloud Computing is the Recent Past of SOA for the Software Lifecycle".

iTKO Chalk Talk: What is Validation vs. Testing?
Welcome back to another issue of iTKO Chalk Talk. This episode focuses on the discipline of Validation of complex, distributed integration environments, with an example specifically from one of our Defense partners. We've mentioned before that the US Government is leading the way in many aspects of IT governance (or SOA Governance) - of which Validation is a key component. With so many mission critical systems to support, Validation means more than just business continuity, in this sense it can mean saving lives bot

Safer Computing Environments at iTKO
File under "Day in the Life" - Our good buddy Reid-O just got an office makeover courtesy of some overzealous techies - he should enjoy his new ergonomic, safe computing environment. This is what you get when you are out creating valuable solutions with global partners!

People are Still Testing User Interfaces
So the heyday of UI testing is over as far as enterprise software is concerned, right? In modern apps, the meaningful business logic happens behind the webpage, in the service-to-service integrations that serve up the appropriate dynamic data. Testing the UI is out of fashion. Well not exactly. While one type of manual UI acceptance testing faltered, we see another kind of UI testing taking its place. As much as it is true that there are an increasing number of connections and activities going on "behind the glass" that must be tested, it never will replace the need for thorough testing of the user experience. Why is this?Enter