It’s 2020 and many prevailing practices for how to build business software solutions are still hugely disappointing, especially considering how processes interact.
I get it, we are all human and we long for instant rewards. You ask a question and you want an instant answer. You give a command, and you want things to happen. Throw the ball; the dog runs to fetch it.
Yes, waiting is a terrible experience. You sit in a waiting...
This blog post discusses the considerations behind the introduction of a logical addressing model for the AMQP Addressing specification (which is equivalently applicable to other protocols including HTTP) that coexists and integrates with the common IP/DNS addressing model and non-IP networks. Logical addressing can be used to form overlay networks spanning multiple and mutually isolated networks. The model allows for all actors of a system to be consistently addressed, irrespective of whether they reside in...
While I do co-chair the AMQP Technical Committee in OASIS, this blog post is not an official statement of the committee. It’s a summary of the work that is either being discussed amongst committee members or already in progress in form of current working drafts and aims to put the various work products into context.
The AMQP 1.0 messaging protocol standard was finalized in 2012 and achieved ISO/IEC JTC 1 blessing...
Like many other messaging products and services, the services I build with my team at Microsoft mostly take a neutral stance towards payload data. We move byte arrays and streams. In fact, in my team we made it a hard principle to never touch the message payload inside our services. The upside of that stance is that we can easily support end-to-end payload encryption, because we don’t attempt to make any decisions based on the...
“Blockchain” is one of the software industry’s hottest topics. As such, it’s an automatic discussion subject between distributed systems engineers from across the industry, and especially amongst those who build cloud-scale (or planet-scale) platforms. While most platform folks I’ve talked to about it are perfectly happy to help with frameworks that help selling their respective product or services to customers who are committed using blockchains, and some of those engineers even rode the crypto wave...