Book Review: Enterprise Service Bus: Theory in Practice

Book Review:  Enterprise Service Bus by David A. Chappell: Publisher- O'Reilly: ISBN- 13: 978-0-596-00675-4

Though book is almost 10 year old but still a good read those who are in integration or SOA domain.

Chappell describes a highly promising (in 2004) but still rock solid technology for connecting together enterprise-wide systems. Now these technologies have expanded beyond enterprise apps to cloud of various flavors.

The books combines nicely described technical descriptions of ESB features with some high-level case studies which gives insight in various use cases for ESB.

Disclaimer: I did not get paid to review this book, and I do not stand to gain anything if you buy the book. I have no relationship with the publisher or the author. I got electronic format of book from publisher for review.

One can get more information about book and related topics from:

1.     Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Enterprise-Service-Bus-Theory-Practice/dp/0596006756

2.     Publisher -- Oreilly http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596006754.do

Top Trends of 2015

Internet of things will start to emerge.

2.    Tablet and Smart phone will keep on merging into one device in developing markets.

3.    Consumers will further loose control on personal data. Advertisers will follow you from one device to another (Phone, tablet, laptop, desktop, smart glasses, etc.). Bye bye privacy.

4.    Bigdata, HTML5, Java Script, CSS experts will be in great demand.

5.    Android will further penetrate into automobile market as entertainment and controlling hub.

6.    Private Cloud will gain currency will ultra large (e.g. Wallmart), financial institutions (Banks, Insurance, etc.), security and privacy conscious industry (defense contractors, etc.).

7.    Big Data and Social networking Analysis will rise further.

8.    Spatial gesture sensitive and voice controlled devices will rise further.

9.    BYOD will gain further momentum

10. Jobs will keep on shifting from Hardware to Software.

11. Wearable computers will emerge stronger.

12. Mobile payment will rise further

Prediction for remaining decade (2014-2025) - 2015

1.    Bigdata trend will keep gaining strength in both spheres – Batch & Real time. But too many tools may kill momentum.

2.    SAAS and PAAS will prevail for small and big enterprise.

3.    IAAS will thrive in enterprise data centers (Private Cloud).

4.    Industry specific cloud platforms will rise to cater regulatory and vertical specific needs.

5.    Fragmentation and Alternatives of Java and Enterprise Java (like Apache harmony, and Spring) will emerge stronger and official java from Oracle will loose its sheen due to lust for its monetization by Oracle.

6.    Laptop, mobile and tablet will merge into one.

7.    Indian IT workforce will shift from permanent job to contractual jobs like in USA.

8.    Developing countries will swept by telecom revelation like India in previous decade.

9.    Gamification will engulf almost all experiences especially of social media.

10.  Outsoucing will change from India focused to 2I + 1 (2 location in India and one elsewhere).

11.  Digital currencies will impact financial markets in big way.

12.  Application will be pervasive in devices and appliances like phones (mobile and fixed line), TVs, automobiles, refrigerators, disk (CD/DVD/BlueRay) players, and any computing device.

13.  Fragmentation of Internet - There will be walls around country or region specific internet.

14.  Rise of china based technology companies.

Bigdata Ecosystem

I have had a lot of discussions on big data with my clients and prospects.  During these discussions some questions comes up on Hadoop for ex: – What are the different components of a Hadoop ecosystem?

In my point of view the question should be - What are different components of a Bigdata ecosystem?

Everyone seems to have a different answer for it.  I have tried to consolidate the answers. The results are this picture.