Articles

• 10 Mistakes Companies Make When Implementing SOA Projects and How to Avoid Them; Jan. 2008; Callahan, Paul; eweek; Great summary of key SOA considerations. SOA is not as complicated, nor as revolutionary, as some vendors and pundits would lead you to believe.

• Enterprise Software as a Service; 2005; Jacobs, Dean; ACM/Queue Magazine; Excellent review of how the enterprise software space is moving into the service delivery model, what new considerations and opportunities are encountered. Written by a former colleague, very smart guy!

Books

• The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google; 2008; Carr, Nicholas

• Getting Started With Websphere Enterprise Service Bus V6; 2007; Davies, Krishna, Schorow

• The Definitive Guide to SOA: BEA AquaLogic Service Bus; 2007; Keen

• Service-Oriented Architecture: A Field Guide to Integrating XML and Web Services; 2004; Erl

• Database Tuning: Principles, Experiments, and Troubleshooting Techniques ; 2002; Bonnet, Shasha

• Understanding .NET: A Tutorial and Analysis ; 2002; Chappell

• Understanding Web Services: XML, WSDL, SOAP, and UDDI ; 2002; Newcomer

• The Art of Computer Programming: Volumes 1-3 ; 1998; Knuth

• Principles of Transaction Processing ; 1997; Bernstein, Newcomer

• The Tuxedo System ; 1996; Andrade, Carges, Dwyer, Felts

• Transaction Processing : Concepts and Techniques ; 1993; Gray, Reuter

Other Stuff

• Lake Trail Partners Blog; Starting January 2008 am giving this another go. Mostly quick postings on interesting articles, industry trends, etc.