Technology updtes from the Foci Solutions team.
You’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 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 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 […]
Read MoreWorking with Microsoft’s Fakes and Shims is really a treat. I love how easy they are to setup and how I can be sure that I can test anything I need. Problem: Lately I have been trying to test Generic Methods of an Interface. Doesn’t seem like a challenge, as nothing else in the framework […]
Read MoreCheck out my latest post on Multi Stage Pipelines & Azure DevOps My latest project utilized automated builds to speed up the deployment life cycle. We are running in an agile process and wanted to leverage continuous integration to help the product owners see new features as soon as possible. What follows is a quick […]
Read MoreWe’ve all found ourselves looking at an organization’s web services and commenting on how “It’s not really SOA”. Maybe because the program still maintains point-to-point interfaces, or maybe the organization hasn’t put in place any form of governance, but for whatever reason, we declare that it simply isn’t comprehensive enough to be considered SOA. That […]
Read MoreSOA landscapes today look very much like fractals. An organization may have several internal capabilities presented as reusable services that connect to each other. It may even connect to 3rd party and/or cloud based services. But if you drill down into each of these services, you’ll likely see a composite application that is made up […]
Read MoreThe Oldest Buzzword Around Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) isn’t a new concept by any means. It’s practically a decade old and, in IT years, that’s beyond the useful lifespan of just about all buzzwords. And that’s the problem; as a buzzword, SOA never attained the same level of popularity as Cloud or Big Data. The […]
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