Large enterprises usually have many programming languages across their departments. These departments, often located in different cities, will build teams out of what they see as the best-available local resources. It’s fairly common to find large-scale enterprise or government groups that have applications written in .NET and Java, never mind the plethora of other languages […]
Read MoreThe Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) is a library that enables software to discover and load libraries at runtime without hard-coded references. Microsoft included MEF in .NET framework version 4.0 and since then it has been commonly used for dependency resolution and inversion of control patterns. Orbital Bus makes communication possible between different parties by sharing […]
Read MoreContinuous integration can be a tough sell to managers. It’s hard to describe the need for extra time and resources to build automated tests that should mimic what is already being done by developers. This advocacy can be especially difficult early in development when CI failures are common and the pipeline will need a lot […]
Read MoreYou’ve heard people talk about enterprise service buses and you think it’s time you learned out to use one. You read an awesome blog post about this new thing called Orbital Bus and you think it would be a good project to play around with. Where should you start? Let’s start here. Understanding the Architecture I’m […]
Read MoreWhenever I walk into a new client, the first things I hear from the Technology Executives are typically: “We need to modernize”, “We need to transform”, “We need to adopt <insert trendy tech buzzword>”. What I never hear is: “We need to bring our development and testing methodologies up to date”, “We need more collaboration […]
Read MoreToday, we are proud to announce the public beta launch of the Orbital Bus open source project. The Orbital Bus is a distributed Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) intended to make it easier for developers to implement smart, reusable, loosely coupled services. We believe that a peer-to-peer mesh of lightweight integration nodes provide a much more […]
Read MoreOne of the most common objections I hear among my large enterprise and government clients when discussing adopting new technologies is “We’re a Microsoft shop so why would we look at a Java-based tool?” or open source, or Google, or Salesforce, and the list goes on. This objection is grounded in the opinion that increasing the […]
Read MoreLet’s face it, to most people in IT, “Governance” is a dirty word. That perception is not born out of an idea that IT governance is bad, but out of the reality that IT governance is badly implemented in most organizations. When an organization confuses good IT governance with overly detailed and prescriptive IT governance, it starts to constrain rather than […]
Read MoreA little over three years ago, I had the great fortune to reconnect with an old friend from my university days. I lured him away from his well-paying and stable position at one of the Big 5 consulting firms to help me incubate an Integration practice focused on helping large enterprise clients connect their various […]
Read More.NET is a proven and mature framework that has great benefits, however it is often overlooked when companies are deciding on a language and framework. Many developers remember the Microsoft of old where you were immediately stuck with proprietary frameworks and Microsoft-only products that have high initial costs and outrageous scaling overhead. Fortunately for the […]
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