Building a Recession - Proof SOA Strategy
Given at MuleSource Webinar on
About a month ago, I did a webinar with MuleSource with some advice for IT departments in these "tough times."
The talk is not really technology focused at all, but more focused on the types of things IT folks should be thinking about and doing while they're waiting for the good times to return. In summary: figure out how save your ass first (hint: tell the people who give you money what they're getting for their cash), and then, if you can, work on small wins that bring in new revenue for the company. Being something of an SOA basher, somewhat counter-intuitively I look towards the original goals and motivations for SOAs before they went WS-* as a potential framework to help.
Also, the other nice part is that I end up having several side conversations with MuleSource's Mahau Ma and from the questions submitted during the talk.
Disclosure: MuleSource is a client and paid for this webinar.