by John Schmidt on February 2, 2012 – 5:58 am
Lean management practices have been applied in recent years to virtually all business functions and processes, including of course Lean Integration. IT architecture is no exception. But what exactly does a Lean Architecture look like and how could you measure its “leanness”? Since there is no generally accepted definition lean architecture, and since I won’t bore you with mine, it might be easier to describe what a non-lean architecture looks like. Or to ask it differently, what are some non-lean approaches to architecture? Read More »
by David Loshin on January 31, 2012 – 11:42 am
Coincidentally, my company is involved with a number of different customers who are reviewing the quality criteria associated with addresses. Each scenario has different motivations for assessing address data quality. One use case focuses on administrative management – ensuring that things that need to happen at a particular location have an accurate and valid address. A different use case considers one aspect of regulatory compliance regarding protection of private information (since mail delivered to the wrong address is a potential exposure of the private information contained within the envelope). Another compliance use case looks at timely delivery of hard copy notifications as part of a legal process, requiring the correct address. Read More »
by Peter Benesh on January 30, 2012 – 3:25 pm
In a recent post: Remove the Restrictor Plate with High Performance Load Balancing, my colleague Jeff Brokaw compared the high performance architecture of Informatica Ultra Messaging to the removal of the carburetor restrictor plate on a NASCAR racing engine to increase airflow and speed. Ultra Messaging has removed the “restrictor plate” in that it provides direct peer-to-peer communication between applications with no intermediary brokers – thereby delivering extremely high and sustained throughput rates at low latencies. Read More »
