Defining “Design Management” Often I hear comments like “we don’t need to maintain a design document as the code has all we need” or “well we have this spreadsheet which has where the data comes from – but it’s going to be out of date”. Or perhaps even worse is when someone has documents, diagrams […]
I recently attended SXSW 2015 and heard a great panel discussion titled “Secrets To Powerful APIs” with Erik Michaels-Ober (Soundcloud), Jim Heising (IFTTT), Wynn Netherland (GitHub), and Leah Culver (DropBox). Among many other interesting things the panelists said was their uniform agreement that they don’t use HATEOAS (Hypertext As The Engine Of Application State) API […]
When contemplating the significance of powerful “schema-less” NoSQL databases and Big Data environments, architects may wonder, “do schemas still matter?” Even if you’re pretty sure they do, there’s plenty of scope to wonder just how and why and under what circumstances. How should schemas figure into your information management strategy going forward? What is a […]
In my opening session at digitalML’s fifth annual customer Forum, the Service Design Forum, I presented this slide to guide a discussion of the way Data Governance has evolved in this era of OmniChannel experiences and Big Data: The blue layers represent all your data, whether in motion or at rest, and I’ve called out […]
It felt good to be attending digitalML’s fifth annual customer Forum, the Service Design Forum at the beautiful Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel Chicago, as digitalML’s Chief Customer Officer. I’ve presented at every other customer Forum in prior years as a Forrester analyst, and now that I’ve joined digitalML, I’m feeling so much more engaged in […]
In Canonical Models Should Be A Core Component Of Your API Strategy, we explored why your canonical model is so critical to future success with APIs and services. The answer centers on the need for business interoperability among the various constituencies producing and consuming APIs and services. The more widely used you intend your API […]
Many large enterprises are striving to become more agile and innovative in their digital business, in response to upstarts encroaching on market share. Learn how the ignite Service Design Platform helps these firms beat the competition by building and leveraging an effective portfolio of API’s and Web Services, retaining the advantages of size while nimbly […]
Enterprises pursing a SOA strategy over the last decade often put increasing reuse high on their list of objectives, reasoning that they were wasting a lot of money on needlessly redundant copies of the same services, also driving up maintenance costs. Yet many firms have struggled to achieve meaningful reuse, and some have either given […]
We want to get results quicker don’t we? Building services and APIs is no different. How do we get services tested, deployed and being useful sooner? That’s easy isn’t it? I’ll use a code generator to speed things up. All I need to do is make a WSDL, WADL or Swagger file from my specifications […]
In Why You Must Respond To The API Economy, we examined the growing number of reasons why firms are embracing #API’s as a key enabler. Whether you’re exposing core capabilities as a digital business, supporting mobile apps, monetizing data assets, building a developer or partner ecosystem, or all of the above, APIs are key to […]