If You Build It, You Need to Send it Out
I suggest you gentlemen invent a way to put a square peg in a round hole. Rapidly. - Gene Kranz (Apollo 13) I have been a systems integrator for a quarter of a century. I spend my time staring at one product's square peg and another product's round hole and trying to decide what to do. There is the amazing scene in the movie Apollo 13 where the literally need to put a square CO2 scrubber into a round receptacle. I love the engineer, "we've got a find a way to make this, fit into the hole for this, using nothing but that." That, right there, that has been my career. This week, sort of out of the blue, I realized that over that my twenty-five year career there has been a philosophy change in how systems integration should work. Protocol technology has marched forward from Remote Method Invocation (RMI) to SOAP to REST with JSON, but there has been a large philosophical difference. In the beginning of days of systems integration, the philosophy was "if I bui...