Tag: system integration
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Baby Steps to SOA – Step Ten: Riding the ESB
In the continuing Baby Steps to SOA series, we follow Doug and the IT team behind BuyMyWidget.com as they take steps to renovate their digital asset architecture. In this final stage, the team moves to using an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) to handle the inter-application communication. This step allows for an increased…
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Baby Steps to SOA – Step Nine: Moving beyond the website
In the continuing Baby Steps to SOA series, we follow Doug and the IT team behind BuyMyWidget.com as they take steps to renovate their digital asset architecture. Up next is expanding the use of the new services layers to their other applications within the business. While focus is usually given to…
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Baby Steps to SOA – An Introduction
Around five years ago, I remember a lot of folks started getting into the hype around Service-Oriented Architecture. “This is the way of the future!” you would hear, or “All of our problems will be solved by moving to SaaS or SOA!” Take a moment now and consider your own…
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Profiling Integration Performance on a Tight Budget
Application performance is heavily dependent on the performance of the communications between the primary application and all other integrated systems. Even the tiniest of changes in a connected system can suddenly cause a huge performance hit. For example, a small web service retrieving data about a user when they log…
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Integration Testing with Unit Tests and MSTest
In many of the projects that I have worked on, the application we’re building needs to integrate with a back-end system or a web service layer that is maintained by a third party or by another team. In these cases, we shouldn’t assume we’ll have the ability to ensure that…
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