{"id":548,"date":"2008-03-13T10:12:08","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T09:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=548"},"modified":"2008-03-13T10:12:08","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T09:12:08","slug":"does-my-bus-look-big-in-this-martin-fowler-and-jim-webber-debunk-middleware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/548-does-my-bus-look-big-in-this-martin-fowler-and-jim-webber-debunk-middleware.html","title":{"rendered":"Does my bus look big in this? Martin Fowler and Jim Webber debunk middleware"},"content":{"rendered":"

Entertaining session to close a slightly disappointing first day at Qcon<\/a> in London. Martin Fowler<\/a> and Jim Webber<\/a> from ThoughtWorks<\/a> discussed the history of application integration: how to get diverse applications on diverse platforms talking to each other and sharing data.<\/p>\n

TIBCO<\/a>, BizTalk<\/a>, webMethods<\/a>, you name it, “they’re a pain in the neck to use”, said Webber.<\/p>\n

Enterprise Service Bus? Should be called the “Erroneous Spaghetti Box”. SOA? “A dog’s breakfast.”<\/p>\n

According to Fowler and Webber, the Web is the answer. “The dumbness of the internet is a real win…it allows you to do things that you did not think of.” The Web is ubiquitous middleware, incremental and low risk.<\/p>\n

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Squid<\/a> is your Enterprise Bus … We’re not going to need all this crazy middleware that middleware vendors try to sell us. We don’t like ESBs … The big up-front middleware approach just isn’t very sensible.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Right or wrong? To me, the question to ask of these complex middleware products (and I don’t want to pre-judge the answer) is this: what can I do with this, that I can’t do without it, or do equally well with a simpler solution?<\/p>\n

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Entertaining session to close a slightly disappointing first day at Qcon in London. Martin Fowler and Jim Webber from ThoughtWorks discussed the history of application integration: how to get diverse applications on diverse platforms talking to each other and sharing data. TIBCO, BizTalk, webMethods, you name it, “they’re a pain in the neck to use”, … Continue reading Does my bus look big in this? Martin Fowler and Jim Webber debunk middleware<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}