SOA Patterns : Composite Frontend (PDF)
I got a few request for a PDF version of the pattern so here it is : Composite Frontend Pattern
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I am not blogging much these days – most of it is due to trying to get my bloody book finished. A case study and a finished anti-pattern chapter where recently pushed to the MEAP, and here’s one additional pattern from chapter 6 (service consumer patterns): When we try to think about service consumers, the obvious candidates are, of course, other services. Nevertheless there are other...
Read MoreAzure Worker Role is not there yet
Microsoft’s furray into the Cloud service providers (a.k.a. Azure) tries to play both in the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) playgrounds (Kate Craig provides good definitions of IaaS and PaaS if you need them). Microsoft’s IaaS offering (though it also has some PaaS attributes ) is pretty simple and straight forward with a (yet in beta)...
Read MoreSOA anti-pattern: Transactional Integration
Transactional Integration It all starts with a business requirement – as it always should. We have an ordering system (say the same one from the Knot anti-pattern) and the business says they only want to confirm an order to the user if the item is already secured for that order in the stock. From the technical point of view we have 2 separate services – one handles orders the other...
Read MoreSOA – Contracts, Events and ownership
I recently listened to Udi Dahan’s excellent “Avoiding a failed SOA” presentation from QCON London (it is about an hour long, but it is worth your time). I agree with most of what Udi says except two points. One is that pub/sub is not the only way to go (and you should minimize duplex message). Events and choreography are definitely my preferred way to go since they make it...
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