While talking about SOA Governance, one visualizes big fat software and tools which costs millions of dollars and a platoon of support staff to “govern” SOA Governance platform.
In my experience, I noticed that small baby steps always more helpful and governance should be embedded in architecture and design. Instead of SOA Governance, I like it to be service governance first.
Recently, talking to one of my counterpart at my client place, I encountered a classic case of mis governance in services space. Once service is created and deployed, its contract ( wsdl in case of web service) is freely available across enterprise which makes unknowns its customer (sic) without any controlling authority. This uncontrolled distribution and usage of contract leads to nightmares and fights when service performance decreases or new version of service need to be releases and older version to be retired.
How to avoid such dogfight!
Simply create a registry (not UDDI) of service and make sure that this registry contains the information that who is calling whom and authentication has to pass through this registry. I understand this suggestion violets purist form of SOA but in this world nothing is perfect.
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Book Review: SOA Governance by Todd Biske (ISBN-13: 978-1847195869)
SOA Governance is one of the most vigorously debated and misunderstood subject in SOA world. Because of inherent complexity of governance and SOA, SOA Governance becomes more complex subject.
Book is written is style of novel coupled with some hard technical talk in end of each chapter. This makes reading of book very relaxing though covering complex subject. Book covers governance issue in such a fluid manner that while reading it seems that one is just browsing a story book. Book starts with basic concept of governance and start peeling layers. It covers architectural, design and project management challenges to have good governance model from project as well as enterprise perspective.
Book also take advantage of case study approach and assume very realistic insurance company with all nuisance of IT Management and Architecture noise.
Book is certainly a good read for its target audiences – Architects, IT & Business management folks and certainly those who are interested in SOA Governance.
Go and grab the book at packtpub.com
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