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LZA SOA Training & Certification: Sydney — February 17 – 20, 2014
Monday February 17, 2014-Thursday February 20, 2014
C C & C Solutions
L20 Zenith Tower
A 821 Pacific Highway
Chatswood NSW 2067
Australia
Price: A$2,495.00 (including $500 early discount) [converted to 2289.09 USD]
We offer additional discounts for groups of three or more people, government or non-profit employees, people who’ve taken a ZapThink class before, or individuals who are paying out of their own pocket. Please email us at info@zapthink.com for a discount code you can use when registering.
ZapThink SOA Training & Certification: The Leading Vendor Independent, Architect-Focused SOA Training
ZapThink’s Licensed ZapThink Architect (LZA) SOA Training & Certification Boot Camp is recognized around the world as the best single Service-Oriented Architecture training course available anywhere.
The LZA SOA Boot Camp is an intensive, four day “fire hose” of information that prepares you to succeed with your SOA efforts, whether you’re just beginning them or are well down the road with SOA. ZapThink’s LZA SOA Training reflects the best thinking and research that ZapThink produces.
Announcing Version 10.1 of the Licensed ZapThink Architect SOA course!
With new content on “next generation” SOA: more lightweight, decentralized, RESTful, and Cloud-friendly. We cover “first generation” SOA as well, of course: ESB-centric, Web Services-based. But many of today’s organizations are interested in moving past this heavyweight approach.
Take the LZA course to learn how to leverage next generation SOA in your organization!
What makes the LZA SOA Boot Camp so special?
- Vendor independent – We discuss vendors in context, both good and bad. You get a balanced perspective on each vendor we discuss.
- Architect focused – The course concentrates on what architects have to do to be successful with SOA in their own organizations. We balance technology details with organizational approaches. If you’re not an architect you’ll learn how to think like one in this class!
- Practical – we connect theory to practice with what really works in organizations like yours.
- Current – we refresh the course on a regular basis to reflect the latest SOA best practices, as well as how SOA relates to other architectural challenges in the enterprise.
- Enterprise context – SOA is an approach to organizing enterprise IT resources to meet changing business needs. We place SOA into the context of large organizations, with complex, heterogeneous IT environments and all the politics and bureaucracy that every large organization faces.
- Globally recognized certification – Everybody who completes the LZA SOA Boot Camp obtains a certificate representing their LZA credential, giving you the right to call yourself a Licensed ZapThink Architect with all the privileges that come along with this exclusive credential.
- Led by globally recognized SOA thought leader – All ZapThink’s courses are developed and led by Jason Bloomberg, President of ZapThink. Jason has been an analyst with ZapThink since 2001 and is the co-author of Service Orient or Be Doomed! as well as his new book, The Agile Architecture Revolution.
- Not too technical, not too high-level – Unlike courses offered by others, we cover the technology without getting lost in the details. We discuss the big picture but connect it to the day-to-day reality of the IT shop.
- Available around the world – See the event schedule for all the locations we’re offering the LZA SOA Boot Camp!
One person in every class wins a copy of The Agile Architecture Revolution!
New! Licensed ZapThink Architect
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Day 1 |
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| Registration: 8:00 to 8:30 AM | ||
| LZA Introduction | ||
Module 1: SOA as Agile Architecture |
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What is an Enterprise? What all Enterprises Have in Common What About Enterprise IT? We need Architecture! In Particular, Enterprise Architecture SOA is EA Architectural Style The Myth of the “Final State” Missing Link: Business Agility! So, what about the technology? The Paradox of Legacy IT The Promise of SOA Business Services: The Core Abstraction of SOA Composability & Business Services ZapThink’s Definition of SOA Why SOA? Is SOA All About Agility? Cost Savings? Increase Reuse? Greater Visibility? Business Empowerment? Achieving Business Agility How Does SOA Provide Business Agility? Difference Between Traditional Integration & SOA Technical Architecture vs. Enterprise Architecture? |
SOA Heralds New Approach to Architecture Starting Point: (Traditional) Systems Engineering AKA Waterfall Software Project Enter Agile Iterative/Agile Software Project But We Still Have Problems Not-So-Agile Updates to Existing Software What Agile Software Should Really Look Like Designing Beyond Use Cases Where’s My Agility? Agility as Emergent Property What is an Emergent Property? Examples of Emergent Properties Introducing Complex Systems The Problem with Traditional Systems Changing the Focus of Engineering Complex Systems Engineering? Architecting only the Technology is Insufficient The Missing Link: Governance Governance: Architecting People Not your Parents’ Governance! Next Generation Governance Agile Architecture – Finally! Case Study: The Hartford |
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Module 2: APIs to Services: Past & Future |
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In the Beginning, The Application was the Program Imperative Programming Enter Distributed Computing Client/Server Architectures Enter Functional Programming Next up: Add OO to the Mix Problem: Tight Coupling Enter Declarative Programming Contracted Interfaces What are Services?(Technically, Service interfaces) Consumers & Providers Web Services Pros & Cons of Web Services WSDL Basics Service Contract vs. Service Description Registry-Based Discoverability Location Independence Web Services Initially followed RPC Style SOAP: Verbose Message Transport RPC Style Example Problems with RPC Style Should Web Services be Declarative? Document Style Web Services Document Style Example Benefits of Document Style Loose Coupling Should All Interfaces Be Services? |
Problems with Document Style Web Services Contract Metadata Beyond WSDL REST to the Rescue! What is REST Anyway? Is REST about APIs? REST Myths Essential REST Terminology What is a Resource? Uniform Interface PUT vs. POST: Initializing a Resource What is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)? RESTful vs. RPC-based URIs What is a Representation? What are Hypermedia? Four Architectural Constraints Separation of Resource from Representation Manipulation of Resources by Representations Self-Descriptive Messages Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State Discoverability with REST Discoverability & Hypermedia Custom Media Types Contracted Services Contract Metadata for REST The REST Shell Game The End of the Road Case Study: ABN Amro |
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| Exercise: SOA Return on Investment | ||
| Homework: Service Model | ||
| Class Ends at 5:00 PM | ||
Day Two |
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| Class Begins at 8:30 AM | ||
Module 3: SOA Intermediaries |
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What’s a Service? Levels of Service Abstraction Statelessness Service Interfaces Aren’t Good Enough Abstractions: Simple on the Outside Abstraction = Working Illusion Building a Working Illusion The Fundamental Technical Challenge of SOA SOA “Magicians’ Tricks” Multiple Interfaces per Implementation Multiple Implementations per Interface Multiple Interfaces per Business Service Actualizing the Business Service Abstraction SOA Infrastructure Starting Point: The Intermediary Some Intermediary Roles Intermediaries and Service Façades Buying an Intermediary? No Clear ESB Definition The ESB Pattern The Great ESB/SOA Middleware Boondoggle Buy More Middleware for SOA? Heavyweight vs. Lightweight SOA Thread-Based Execution Service Mediation with Oracle Service Bus ESB Federation? Do You need an ESB for Service Mediation? Intermediary-Based Service Abstraction Another Approach: XML Appliances |
IBM: Covering their Bets Three Approaches to State Web Services’ Achilles Heel Threads & Queues SOA Tenet: Asynchrony Queue-Based Execution SOA 2.0? SOA & Message Exchange Patterns Messages vs. Events EDA Visualized Strong Decoupling? EDA without vs. with SOA So, Where’s the State? Physical Service Architecture Fiorano Brokered Peer-to-Peer Architecture Process Coordinator HATEOAS in Action Explicit State Transitions in REST REST Starting Point Caching Options Proxy Pattern Gateway (Reverse Proxy) Pattern Asynchronous REST RESTful State Management Essential for the Cloud Scalability & State,The Old Way Here’s Your App in the Cloud Building Intermediary-Based SOA Infrastructure Case Study: US Coast Guard SPEAR (Semper Paratus: Enterprise Architecture Realization) |
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Module 4: Service Composition & Business Process |
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What is a Business Process? Problems with Traditional BPM Tooling Business Process the Enterprise Application Way Business Process the Service-Oriented Way Service-Oriented Process Metadata-Driven Applications Process Definitions Example: Orchestration vs. Choreography What is the Sweet Spot for Service Composition? SOA Composite Application Example Enterprise Applications and Process Example: SAP NetWeaver Transactions and SOA Compensating Transactions Compensating Transaction Example The Heavyweight ESB/Web Services Story Web Services Orchestration |
BPEL Example Limitations of BPEL Challenges with Declarative Approach BPMN to the Rescue? BPMN Example Limitations of BPMN How Architecture Has to Fill the Gap Workflow & Web Services RESTful BPM Composite Representation Composite RESTful Service Everything is a Resource Examples of Process Representations Example of REST Choreography Follow Links to Learn About Processes Some Benefits of REST-Based BPM Case Study: SOA Journey at BP |
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| Exercise: Service Composition | ||
| Homework: Business Case | ||
| Class Ends at 5:00 PM | ||
Day Three |
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| Class Begins at 8:30 AM | ||
Module 5: The Role of Data & Semantics |
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Data: Foundation for SOA The Data Services Layer Application Services vs. Data Services Key Service Abstraction Enabler: Proper Granularity Granularity Example Achieving Proper Granularity Zeroing in on Proper Granularity Entity Services Task Services Utility (IS) Services Should Services Be Nouns or Verbs? Service Relationships Example Task Service Benefit: Process Isomorphism Service Layers Alternate Service Layer Model RESTful Service Layers Designing Data Services |
Performance vs. Flexibility Supporting Data Services with Data Integration Leveraging Data Services Layer Semantic Level Understanding Role of Application Semantics Semantics: The Greatest Integration Challenge of SOA Still a Manual Process Resolving Semantic Issues Industry-Specific Semantic Standards RDF & Web Services Semantic Model Example: Maritime Information Exchange Model What About Custom Media Types? Custom Media Types & HATEOAS Custom Media Types & RDF In Progress: HAL (Hypertext App Language) Case Study: MyFoodAlerts.com |
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Module 6: SOA Governance |
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The Context for Governance What is Organizational Governance? Architecture-Driven Governance Maturity How to Tackle Governance? The Cornerstone of IT Governance is Architecture Elements of IT Governance Strategy Architecture Board What is SOA Governance? Step 1: Human-Centric SOA Governance Central Tool: The Repository Design Time Policy Examples Additional SOA Governance Activities Essential REST-Based SOA Policies The Power of the SOA Center of Excellence SOA Governance Board Activities Creating the Governance Framework Step 2: Technology-Centric SOA Governance The Challenge of Policy Automation Steps for Automating Policies Supporting Policy Changes “Meta” Thinking Dealing with Change Avoiding Hall of Mirrors Problem What is a Policy? Policy “Math” Computing Effective Policy WS-Policy Example WS-PolicyAttachment Policy Attachment to WSDL 1.1 Some Policy Standards WS-SecurityPolicy Example (Policy & Conforming Message) Run Time Policy Examples Management & Loose Coupling SOA Management: Many Facets The Problem with SOA Management The Vendor Name Game The SOA Management Conundrum SOA Monitoring & Management The First Rule of SOA Management Change Time Policy Examples What is a Registry? What’s the Deal with UDDI? The Registry/Repository Registry/Repository as Heavyweight SOA Tool |
Heavyweight SOA Governance Pitfall: Versioning Handling Service Versioning Versioning Concepts Versioning Strategies Strict, Flexible, and Loose Versioning Versioning Policy Issues Difference Between Web Services-Based SOA & REST-Based SOA Step 3: Technology-Centric Architecture-Driven Governance Decoupling Policies from Services Critical SOA Challenge: Security Security Fundamentals The Context of IT Security XML Threat Prevention Mitigating XML Threats Web Services Security WS-Security Tokens Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) SAML Assertions Federated Security Securing RESTful Interactions OAuth as FederatedAuthentication Mechanism Is OAuth Doomed? Cloud Security: Policy Message-Level Security:Is SSL Sufficient? Core Requirements for Securing Services Policy Management & Enforcement Extending SOA Governance to the Cloud Step 4: Human-Centric Architecture-Driven Governance Changing Attractors The Agility Model Reusability vs. Usability Achieving Reusability: Service Agnosticism Designing for Reuse:Agnostic Context Enabling Service Domains Governance Challenge:Reuse = Sharing Publishing & Discovery Governance Is Reuse a Real SOA Benefit? Remember: Business Agility is a Requirement Continuous Quality Activities Quality & Complex Systems The SOA Quality Star Best Effort SOA Beyond SOA Governance |
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| Exercise: SOA Governance | ||
| Class Ends at 5:00 PM | ||
Day Four |
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| Class Begins at 8:30 AM | ||
Module 7: Planning & Running the SOA Initiative |
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Iterative: More than Step-by-Step Iterate your Architecture? Project Management for a SOA Project Defining SOA Roadmap Initial Assessments Building Support for SOA Building the SOA Business Case Milestone / KPI Plan The SOA Roadmap SOA Maturity Models Analogous to CMMI SOA Maturity Model Pointers Using a SOA Maturity Model SOA Maturity Model: HP SOA Maturity Model: Wipro Open Group Service Integration Maturity Model (OSIMM) “SOA” Maturity Model – Sonic/Systinet SOA Maturity Model: Oracle SOA Maturity Model: Software AG Define The SOA Metamodel SOA Foundation: Model-Driven Architecture |
Implementing the Service Model Define Initial Iteration SOA Pilots Implementation Planning Service Identification: Top Down vs. Bottom Up Defining Services Approach Performance: Chasing the Bottleneck Implementing Services: Methodologies for change The Dual Lifecycle The Service Lifecycle Advanced Vision for Application Assembly Where Should the Code Be? Top-Down: Analyze Processes Process Analysis & Optimization Discovering Existing Processes Service Identification: Process Decomposition Implementing Services Defining New Compositions Technology Selection Purchasing SOA Technology Technology Selection: Choices Case Study: Novartis |
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Module 8: Addressing SOA Organizational Challenges |
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Organizational Issues Common SOA Pitfalls SOA by Any Name SOA = Best Practices The Wrong Question! Iconoclastic vs. Dogmatic Architecture Thinking Outside the SOA Box SOA Growing Pains Challenges in Calculating ROI The Problems with Vendor-Driven Architecture Challenge: The Right Amount of Governance Avoid Policy Bloat Avoid “Checklist Architecture” Dealing with SOA Hype and Anti-Hype Services Thinking Is there an Architect in the House? Hiring Architects EA Challenges:The Role of the EA Enterprise Architecture Challenges |
Questions to Ask Your EA Good Money after Bad The SOA Consultant Conundrum The SOA School Bus Are “SOA” Consultants Qualified? IT Governance Feedback Loop Interaction Challenges More Interaction Challenges The “Ivory Tower” Problem Convincing Technical Specialists Working with IT Middle Management Service Domain Roles SOA Funding Models Traditional IT Funding:Project Based Initial SOA Funding Funding Cross-Departmental SOA Initiatives CapEx vs. OpEx Budget Workarounds Why is SOA Difficult? | |
| Final Exam: SOA Jeopardy! | ||
| Class Ends at 3:00 PM | ||
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C C & C Solutions
L20 Zenith Tower
A 821 Pacific Highway
Chatswood NSW 2067
Australia
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