Slightly appropriate to yesterday’s Agile is Dead rant – because certain vendors are now out and about flogging that “SOA is Agile” in the most incredibly facile way – here’s an interesting short read about the structural aspects (as opposed to the process-orientated aspects) of agile architecture by Kirk Knoernschild. The problem remains for the industry that a large amount of large-scale architecture is still done in vendor presentations, glossy brochure marketing and sales meetings.
Anyone thinking about SOA really needs their solution architects to read and absorb Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf’s book Enterprise Integration Patterns before they consider enterprise middleware purchases.
