In this episode, Mike and Matt jump headlong into the concept of composability, for both software architectures and digital business. They trace the roots of composability way back to the early days of computing, and show the common thread that runs through the more recent movements around Service Oriented Architecture, Domain Driven Design, API First, and Microservices. There are many resources mentioned in this episode:
Matt’s Infoworld article on SOA and Microservices – https://www.infoworld.com/article/3080611/learning-from-soa-5-lessons-for-the-microservices-era.html
Gartner on Composable Business – https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/gartner-keynote-the-future-of-business-is-composable
David Parnas’ paper introducing information hiding – https://www.win.tue.nl/~wstomv/edu/2ip30/references/criteria_for_modularization.pdf
Mel Conway’s paper introducing Conway’s Law – https://www.melconway.com/Home/pdf/committees.pdf
Djikstra on separation of concerns – https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD04xx/EWD447.html
Alan Kay on message passing – https://wiki.c2.com/?AlanKayOnMessaging
Rechtin on Systems Architecting – https://sdincose.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/TheArtOfSystemsEngineering_inaugural.pdf
Dr. Carliss Baldwin’s Design Rules – https://www.biblio.com/book/design-rules-vol-1-power-modularity/d/1573116839
Roy Fielding defining REST – https://ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch_style.htm#sec_5_3_2
James Lewis & Martin Fowler defining Microservices – https://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html
Jonathan Murray on Composable Enterprise – https://adamalthus.com/blog/2013/04/04/the-composable-enterprise/
