Message-Oriented Architecture is a Misleading Term
I recently blogged about Message-Oriented Architecture (and Message-Oriented Middleware, MOM). The technology leads to extremely flexible and scalable applications; but it really distracts from the system. It’s like calling a standard single-process application as Control-Unit Oriented Architecture. Sure, the application is divided into instructions that eventually make their way to the control unit of the CPU; but that’s not only a implementation detail of the application; it’s an essential implementation detail. It’s pretty hard to write an application that doesn’t eventually distil down to instructions given to a control unit of a CPU. And that’s kind of the problem with … Continue reading Message-Oriented Architecture is a Misleading Term