Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it; the saying goes. Many organisations are still paying the price for vendor lock-in and struggling to get out of “enterprise” platforms such as WebLogic, WebSphere and TIBCO, as they desperately try to break down their monoliths and become cloud native.

The ideal number of columns and whether to use tabs or spaces are frequent topics of debate among programmers. In this post I justify my preference for 70 columns and 2 spaces.

These is a consolidation of various blog posts and articles I had published when consulting under Tesira Ltd about how hyped the SOA market was at the time.

A number of principles that apply whenever an Integration/SOA project abides to a political agenda as opposed to genuine business and technical benefit.