Integration and the Art of ArchiMate – part deux
In my previous post about integration and ArchiMate, I argued that integration could be modelled as some sort of collaboration at the application level. The business layer in this modelling…
Matthijs Castelli
4 april, 2022
Popping Bubbles: Service Oriented Architecture
First, a wave to the crowd Before we begin, we need to have a serious talk. Somehow, whenever we use the abbreviation SOA in relation to IT in the presence…
Wouter de Vries
18 oktober, 2021
Doorbreek het digitale plafond van cloud computing
Vanaf maart 2020 is gebleken hoe solide de Nederlandse digitale infrastructuur eigenlijk is. We zijn toen zonder noemenswaardige problemen, van de ene op de andere dag, massaal op afstand gaan…
Marc Kuijpers
11 juni, 2021
Integration and the art of ArchiMate
So, you’re a minor integration deity, you’ve got your ArchiMate certification and now you’re prowling the internet in search for whoever was first with depicting integration architecture artifacts into ArchiMate….
Matthijs Castelli
21 december, 2020
iPaaS, a technological synonym for a Digital Business Platform?
In my last blogpost I emphasized on the importance of an iPaaS for digital businesses and the ability to support “a wide variety of endpoints and data formats, domains, constituents…
Rubén Middeljans
8 juni, 2020
Principles and Patterns, the Pillars and Plastering of SOA
This post is part of my Popping Bubbles series. If you’re new to the series, you should really start at the beginning. If you don’t have that much time, here’s…
Wouter de Vries
3 april, 2020
An introduction to iPaaS
In the IT industry, among others, you’re often only as good as your last success. As Rogers (2016) mentions: “In a world of rapidly changing technology and customer needs, it…
Rubén Middeljans
30 maart, 2020
Migrating logic in a serverless world
One of my gripes with the technological developments over the past couple of years is that the names that have been bestowed upon them have not been great. Microservices seem…
Coert van den Thillart
20 december, 2019
Popping Bubbles: CDM in practice
This is part two of the two-parter about CDM. In part one we covered the theory of CDM. In this post we’ll get our hands dirty (and our brains as…
Wouter de Vries
31 oktober, 2019
Popping Bubbles: communicating between silos using a CDM
Does this discussion sound familiar? “…” “But an employee can also be a customer!” “True, so we would need something like ‘Person’ to capture the commonalities.” “OK, so email should…
Wouter de Vries
24 oktober, 2019
Popping bubbles: bridging silos using EAI
In my previous bubbles post I explained about silos and why it’s important to “pop them bubbles”. I will continue the history where I left off, with the introduction of…
Wouter de Vries
29 juli, 2019
Reactive Microservices
Microservices are a hot topic these days. A lot has been written about them and a lot of people and companies have started building them. Some say they the concept…
Dirk Janssen
18 maart, 2018
Integrating the trends in integration
System Integration, like IT in general, is an ever changing landscape. With new technologies, paradigms and views emerging over time. The last couple of years this rate of change seems…
Coert van den Thillart
15 februari, 2018
Testautomatisering in een Middleware landschap
Inleiding/Context Bij bijna alle opdrachtgevers waar Rubix werkt speelt het onderwerp testautomatisering. De ene opdrachtgever is hier al verder mee dan de andere. Sommige opdrachtgevers hebben reeds een tool in…
René Noort
11 juli, 2017
Fabric8 concepts and architecture
Fabric8 is a cloud platform which enables you to create and manage a cloud based microservices infrastructure. This article explains the concepts behind Fabric8 and how it tries to solve…
Dirk Janssen
27 juni, 2017
API Management, wat is het en wat kan je ermee?
Als pure specialist op het vakgebied van integratie beseft ook Rubix dat API management niet meer is weg te denken in de wereld van IT. De successen van Uber, AirBnB…
Pim Gaemers
30 augustus, 2016
Passed Arcitura SOASchool S90.02 exam
Last week I passed the Arcitura SOASchool exam S90.02 as part of the SOASchool Architect certification path I would like to complete. The exam covers basic SOA technology concepts like XML…
Jan van Zoggel
8 mei, 2012
Passed Arcitura SOASchool S90.01A exam
Last week I used my voucher to give the Arcitura SOASchool.com S90.01A “Fundamental SOA & Service-Oriented Computing” exam a try. I was fortunate enough to pass it on the 1st try. Since the exam is a…
Jan van Zoggel
30 januari, 2012