Luba Cherbakov

Explore different Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) antipatterns, which are descriptions of commonly occurring situations or solutions that generate decidedly negative consequences. With more businesses taking major steps to move from Web services to SOA, barriers to the introduction, adoption, and successful implementations of SOA are becoming more evident. Some of these barriers are similar to those that caused past essential initiatives to fail; others are specific to SOA. Documenting such barriers and worst practices will help consultants, architects and specialists not to repeat the same mistakes and learn how to avoid them instead. The antipatterns compiled and described here were identified by the authors through personal experiences as IBM architects, examination of past and current SOA engagements, and by soliciting input from practitioners who were invo... (more)

Inside IBM: SOA-Enabled Business Transformation

Like many other enterprises, IBM is transforming itself in response to fierce global competition and partnering, real security threats, the plethora of regulatory requirements, and demands for more flexibility and agility. Service-oriented thinking and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) play an important role in this transformation. In this article I describe four IBM SOA-enabled transformation initiatives, driven by different business value propositions - from regulatory compliance, to a more flexible business model, to cost reduction by eliminating duplicate systems and proce... (more)