Tesla : Case Study : Internet of Things

The Tesla automobile is a big example of the Internet of Things and potential problems and benefits of this idea. (My latest blog update on the tesla is here) IOT properties of the Tesla 1) The Tesla has a persistent always on 3G cell connection to the internet that is paid for by Tesla possibly for life. […]

Software Development today, Cool APIs, Open Source, Scala, Ruby, Chef, Puppet, IntelliJ, Storm, Kafka

What is software development like today? A complaint I heard from a CIO recently was that when talking to the high flying technologists at his firm he said: “they talked in strange names, Kafka this, docker that. Names of open source projects, APIs and languages that make him wonder if these people can program or just […]

Disruptive Forces : Disruptive Megatrends

A number of analyst firms and pundits have declared a list of the megatrends. For examples you can see my blogs: IDC Emerging Trends and Gartner Top Megatrends I have my own list of what I call “disruptive” technologies and trends. This comes from talking to people, observing what companies are doing and what […]

BigData All the time NSA for you

We are at O’Reilly’s BigData Conference Strata in Santa Clara. The halls are bustling. Bigdata is doing well. The WSO2 theme for the show is “NSA for you.” This has attracted a lot of attention. Most people seem to like the reference to the NSA’s recent notoriety. One person came by the booth […]

Component Completeness, what is a complete platform? Using the right tool for the job.

The Typical Organization The typical enterprise application infrastructure looks like this over time. The word platform is very overloaded. As mentioned in a previous blog, by itself it is pretty meaningless term. However, for WSO2 we have thought about what is a platform more systematically. As we built the distributed software platform up from the […]

Componentized Composable Platform (Enterprise Quality Lincoln Logs)

As an enterprise architect we are faced with construction solutions for our companies that must be implemented quickly but need to scale to almost arbitrary capacity quickly when demand materializes and must stand the test of time because it is almost impossible to rebuild enterprise applications once they are successful and in production. There are […]