It's 8:15 in the morning, and as you walk by the main conference room you
overhear an animated exchange between the leaders of your IT organization
including the directors of application development, production support,
testing, and QA. Besides your applications team, you also see your company
operations manager, the network manager, the lead analyst for the database
team, and other assorted technical leads. One of your mission-critical
composite applications is down and the finger-pointing is slowly escalating.
How could this situation have been avoided?
I'll tell you how. In today's enterprise environments, composite applications
create dependencies between multiple technologies...and their respective
stakeholders. Heterogeneity is now the norm, and it can have unintend... (more)