SOA and Cloud Computing

SOA and Cloud Computing by Eric Roch (Chief Technologist)

I have been too busy to blog lately - a good new year's resolution for next year - blog more. But here is some good advise I want to pass on.

Paul Fremantle - SOA and Cloud - My strong belief is that Cloud based systems must be built on SOA and modern Enterprise Architecture principals if they are to be effective. In many ways the issue is this: today's cloud applications are often well-defined, clean, insular applications. That is because the typical messy, interconnected enterprise app simply cannot be built in the cloud today. The data isn't available and so companies looking to create cloud applications tend naturally to avoid those. But over time, as these cloud applications grow and more appear, the interconnectedness with each other and with internal data and applications will grow and we will end up with the twisted balls of spaghetti that we've spent the last 10 years unpicking in the Enterprise.

My advice? Don't do it! Start with a simple but clearly defined SOA/Enterprise Architecture for your Cloud applications and in three years time you can look smugly at your competitors as they struggle to do things you find easy.

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