Hard wiring processes should be a sin, let's do away with it once and for all. Since the dawn of computing, applications have been rigidly architected, and therefore tightly dependant on one another.

I've had a few people ask me about loose coupling and SOA recently. There seems to be some confusion around this concept. With the advent of web services and SOA we've been seeking to create ...

Loose coupling is one of those suddenly popular great ideas that have actually been around for a long time. With loose coupling come two significant benefits long sought by business and IT managers: ...

In my previous post, I discussed the virtues of loosely coupling, rising it to the level of an IT commandment. One reader, Richard Veryard, responded in his own Weblog, however, that maybe loose ...