Stop fighting and start integrating: Sorting out edge and hub responsiblities

Being heavily involved in multiple integration-centric projects there is usually the debate over what parts of the integration belong to the end-point applications and what part needs to be centralized and standardized by an "enterprise" (think big and expensive) team.

Joshua Fox has a very interesting article on www.architectureandgovernance.com that helps to sort out the varying responsibilities of the "Edge vs. the Hub". Scott's balanced approach allows edge applications to adopt standard protocols (WS-I) and standard formats (ACORD, FIX, etc.) and leave all the technical stuff to the hub. This is a nicely balance approach that is very well explained in the article.