By - drmarkhm

Decreasing BSS/OSS “integration tax”: Part 4 – Cloud Native Architecture uses interfaces internally for greater flexibility

This BLOG post is the fourth and final in a series of short articles on the changes in BSS and OSS architectures arising from the changing underlying data communications, middleware, and data modeling software technology. In the last posting, we looked at how the Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), designed with integration in mind, further dropped the interfacing costs. Here we

By - drmarkhm

Decreasing BSS/OSS “integration tax”: Part 3 – Client/Server and SOA start bringing more “do it yourself”

This BLOG post is the third in a series of short articles on the changes in BSS and OSS architectures arising from the changing underlying data communications, middleware, and data modeling software technology. In the last posting, we looked back at the effect of the introduction of Internet Protocol (or, more properly, TCP/IP) that allowed ‘islands’ of systems to start

By - drmarkhm

Decreasing BSS/OSS “integration tax”: Part 2 – IP and middleware make things better

This BLOG post is the second in a series of short articles on the changes in BSS and OSS architectures arising from the changing underlying data communications, middleware, and data modeling software technology. In the last posting, we looked back on the early days of OSS and BSS – in the 1970s and early 1980s when only huge systems, architected

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Audrine Research Backgrounder: Decreasing “integration tax” has radically changed BSS and OSS architectures and business – and will change them more in the future with microservices [Part 1]

Microservices, part of “cloud native” software architecture, are all the rage today. This Backgrounder post starts a series of short articles on the changes in BSS and OSS architecture arising from the changing underlying data communications, middleware, and data modeling software technology. Here, we look back on the early days of OSS and BSS – in the 1970s and 1980s.