Ebook: The Agile Architecture Revolution: How Cloud Computing, Rest-Based SOA, and Mobile Computing are Changing Enterprise IT
- Year: 2013
- Language: English
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The Agile Architecture Revolution places IT trends into the context of Enterprise Architecture, reinventing Enterprise Architecture to support continuous business transformation. It focuses on the challenges of large organizations, while placing such organizations into the broader business ecosystem that includes small and midsize organizations as well as startups.
- Organizes the important trends that are facing technology in businesses and public sector organizations today and over the next several years
- Presents the five broad organizing principles called Supertrends: location independence, global cubicle, democratization of technology, deep interoperability, and complex systems engineering
- Provides a new perspective on service-oriented architecture in conjunction with architectural approaches to cloud computing and mobile technologies that explain how organizations can achieve better business visibility through IT and enterprise architecture
Laying out a multidimensional vision for achieving agile architectures, this book discusses the crisis points that promise sudden, transformative change, unraveling how organizations' spending on IT will continue to undergo radical change over the next ten years.Content:
Chapter 1 Introducing Agile Architecture (pages 1–19):
Chapter 2 Shhh, Don't Tell Anyone, but Let's Talk about Service?Oriented Architecture (pages 21–50):
Chapter 3 Governance: The Secret to Satisfying the Business Agility Meta?Requirement (pages 51–72):
Chapter 4 The Enterprise as Complex System (pages 73–87):
Chapter 5 Agile Architecture in Practice (pages 89–102):
Chapter 6 You Say You Want a Revolution … (pages 103–131):
Chapter 7 The Democratization of Enterprise IT (pages 133–146):
Chapter 8 Deep Interoperability: Getting REST Right (Finally!) (pages 147–176):
Chapter 9 Finally, Let's Move to the Cloud (pages 177–241):
Chapter 10 Can We Do Agile Enterprise Architecture? (pages 243–255):