How do we engineer a service to work at the edge How we used Camel to power a micro services architecture Every deployment need not be a business release Are microservices just repackaged SOA? Operational view point - the often overlooked b…
May 19, 2024 5 min to read We have been working with a client to develop a cutting edge (no pun intended) Point of Sale (POS) system. The key differentiator is to work offline - especially in geographies where internet connection is unrelia…
September 15, 2016 14 min to read Recently, at E-Bee, I developed a framework for enabling Micro Services using Apache Camel. I have always been a big fan, nay, a fanatic, of modularisation. Combine the modularisation concept with the notio…
July 22, 2015 6 min to read With a spurt in the documented history of any field of endeavor, we will begin to discern some recurring cycles of patterns. What was once touted as the next best thing would have been subsequently denounced only…
July 11, 2015 10 min to read IT industry is all about change. Functionality needs to constantly evolve. You need more content, more products, more promotions and what not. In fact, a static web site is not very interesting in the eyes of it…
June 18, 2015 5 min to read Alice: Why, don’t you mean impossible?_ Door: No, I do mean impassible. (chuckles) Nothing’s impossible!” As enterprises evolve, multiple portals emerge to facilitate interactions with the end consumer. So before…
The Glass view of enterprise architecture. a reverie on nazca lines and how they relate to the same overall picture that we want as architects My take on Stevey's Rant from Google How bugs drive development in the absence of proper forethou…
March 9, 2015 5 min to read Technical debt has been mentioned in multiple blogs. Ward Cunningham apparently coined the term.As a software product starts acquiring more and more features and thence complexity; it tends to degrade in certain
April 9, 2014 13 min to read The Micro Services Architecture has emerged as yet another old wine packaged in a spanking new bottle. Thought Works and Netflix have published this architecture to the multitude with their blogs and frameworks.…
May 7, 2013 5 min to read It is one of software’s little ironies that most architects would fervently wish to see their software run forever and yet fail to foresee how the system would be maintained after it goes LIVE. This is where the op…
June 21, 2012 3 min to read Legend has it that Bill Gates was the first self proclaimed software architect. Then the fad caught on and the rest is history. Everyone wants to now be part of this selective fraternity. So much so that it is ha…
November 1, 2011 2 min to read Stevey’s Rant has been making the blogging rounds recently. Everyone and their aged and ailing mothers are talking about it including yours truly of course - not my mom though - with this post. I like the rant…