Flow Architectures Quotes

“we are lured by the feigned simplicity of a “single pane of glass” to manage all aspects of a problem across a large, complex organization, but soon cede to the reality that distributed systems require distributed decision-making.”
― James Urquhart, Flow Architectures: The Future of Streaming and Event-Driven Integration

“enterprise service buses, one of their great downfalls was that they didn’t establish a common data protocol between all of the applications connected to the bus.”
― James Urquhart, Flow Architectures: The Future of Streaming and Event-Driven Integration

“there is no technology that can promise that any authorized software that wants to receive and interpret an event — or at least its metadata — can do so at will.”
― James Urquhart, Flow Architectures: The Future of Streaming and Event-Driven Integration

“I am not aware of a product or service that has been widely adopted that has a discovery API.”
― James Urquhart, Flow Architectures: The Future of Streaming and Event-Driven Integration