moebius recursive

Who would have thought that the basic principles of loose-coupling, consistent interfaces and reuse would result in the developers doing less ‘grunt work’. Me for one.

“Doing an analysis of production support issues,” he said, “I was really amazed to find more than half the time they were working on issues relating to transactions between applications in this point-to-point environment.”

Point-to-point EAI connections caused unique problems because there was no consistency in the way integration was being done. That made it time consuming to maintain.

“Sixty percent of the time our application team was working to keep the spaghetti wet, to maintain the point-to-point contacts,” Kelly said.

Starting last fall, implementation of an SOA approach based on the webMethods Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) from Software AG has greatly reduced the maintenance tasks that kept developers from developing new applications, the CIO said.

“By moving to a robust messaging bus I could have robust interaction between applications and reuse services over and over and over for transactions between applications as well as moving data,” he said. “That greatly reduced the production support activities.”

Without an SOA environment such maintenance is a major cost for IT, Kelly said. Creating a point-to-point connection for a specific integration may at first appear to be a quick way to deal with an individual problem, but in the long term having the development staff spending the majority of their time on production support is not cost effective, he said.

Prior to the ESB implementation, the application team was spending 64 percent of its time on support issues and 36 percent of its time on value-added development.

“What’s happening now is those percentages are reversed,” Kelly said. “I’m finding now that 64 percent of the time my applications team is working on development and 36 percent of their time is spent on production support activities.”

Technorati Tags:
architecture, design, esb, enterprisearchitecture, soa, software, technology, webservices

 

Once again, The Onion knocks it out of the ballpark: Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency. We’ll never see anything like this from the ‘accountability president‘.

Technorati Tags:
fun, humor, politics, video

 

This puff piece over on Slate (Get Your Motor Runnin’) leaves me shaking my head. ‘So, are you tired of pumping $4+ gas into you Hummer? Then the ‘solution’ is to go out and buy the largest, most fuel inefficient motorcycle that you can afford’. Yeah, that’s the ticket! Idiot. Apparently, anything under 650cc is ‘less-ambitious’.

My own experience is that a 250cc Vespa scooter is more than enough for commuting to/from work and running errand around town. My scoot will do over 70 MPH, it rarely sees 50. I am not planning on driving across the country or entering a race. Why would I ‘need’ anything more?

Knucklehead even recommends a big bike for city dwellers overlooking the fact that a smaller, more nimble scooter would do better in city traffic, city hazards and parking. Overall, scooters get short shift in the article that is nominally supposed to be about fuel efficiency, but instead points the reader at the ‘bigger is better, more expensive is better’ right wing dream.

Technorati Tags:
crap, dubious, economy, peakoil, scootering