When people start to service orient their organisation they often focus on exposing APIs and those APIs invariably solely or mostly focus on method calls, what I and others often refer to as RPC. This is great and brings huge benefit but it does miss a huge opportunity and that is being able to observe and react to what's happening in your organisation. [read more]

ESBs irk me, not the technology in and of itself, that can be useful, it's the way they used. Mostly because every architect and his mentor seems to think you can't have an architecture without one. [read more]