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Thursday, January 02, 2003 Decoupling the Enterprise Data Model ToDo: service access to rdbms data surrogate keys GUIDS posted by jeff | 8:46 AM Wednesday, January 01, 2003 Reverse Engineering Coupling Levels An obvious extension to having a coupling rating system is having tools to automate the rating. Some of the newer web service management tools allow one to create an inventory of the services on the network. These tools are designed to help manage what you currently have rather than optimize your go-forward design. Design and architectural issues in web service infrastructure will first surface at the macro level. In our recent architectures, 'ilities' emphasized responsiveness, availability, scalability and reliability. The 'ility' (non-functional requirement) of choice in the SOA will be Agility. The materials and the structure that we use to build our systems will have the opportunity to be nimble. Agility is not automatically granted in an SOA; it must be part of the plan. posted by jeff | 8:43 AM Monday, December 30, 2002 Update the Coupling Rating System When you ask a software person about coupling, they will usually tell you that it comes in two flavors: loose and tight. Other developers will tell you that it comes in 5 flavors (Data, Stamp, Control, Common and Content). Doug Kaye, will likely tell you that coupling is a continuum based on attributes. I believe they are all right - and that is part of my problem. The art of coupling will likely rise to be the single most important design factor in the Service Oriented Enterprise. Unfortunately, the art of coupling (and cohesion) remains rather primitive. I think that we all would agree that Doug's recent effort to identify categories of coupling attributes was a great start. And by cruising other blogs, it is apparent that others have improved on some of his concepts. As we approach a new year, it seems like an appropriate challenge to Doug (and friends) to create a coupling rating system. I'm aware that some of this exists in the academic settings (mostly on cohesion), but it is time to bring it to the masses. I'll gladly lend a hand and I'm sure that our Loosely Coupled community will chip in as well. And all good things take time - I propose that we iterate through it a few times, let it linger, demolish, rebuild and on January 1st of 2004 we publish a 1.0 of a new coupling rating system. Well? posted by jeff | 8:09 AM |
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