Putting Guard Rails Around ShadowIT: Reference Architecture-as-Code

Central IT groups and CIO’s have always been accountable for the governance of their software portfolios.  Historically this has been through top down approaches.  For certain aspects of the business, such as accounting, real time computing, manufacturing, etc, such

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Introducing OmniSight Telemetry (OST): Advanced, Decoupled Monitoring for the Mule Runtime Engine

Decoupling monitoring infrastructure from an application’s behavior and infrastructure is a foundational technique for scaling a distributed system. There is unfortunately no escape from the “Observer Effect”, even in application development. Attempting to “observe” an application generally involves either

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The Convergence of API’s and Microservices at the Process Layer Utilizing Hexagonal Architecture Patterns

Combining API-Led and Domain Driven Design to Govern Your Microservices Architecture (MSA)

API-Led Connectivity is a technique of organizing the API's microservices expose into three categories: System, Process and Experience. In previous blog posts I've covered how System API's act

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