Welcome to the DSA Group

[Eben Hewitt]

Welcome to the Google Group for Deconstructed Software Architecture
(DSA). I encourage you to participate and share your thoughts to
advance this experimental idea in a new kind of software architecture
strategy.

I actively work on the web, Service Oriented Architecture and Business
Process Management, and am interested in the Semantic Web. The idea
for this new software strategy came to me as I was thinking of ways to
take advantage of the loose coupling and scalability in Event-Driven
Architecture on top of SOA, combined with the growing need for a
semantics-based data model.

While the ideas in EDA have been around for some time, and EDA on SOA
is popularly viewed as a natural fit, DSA adds certain facets and
constraints, and this group is about how to best apply them, record
best practices, create a reference architecture, and perhaps realize
something tangible and useful to the general public of software
architects and developers.

I was invited to talk on this subject at the Business Technology
Summit in Bangalore, India in November, 2009, outlining how Jacques
Derrida's original ideas in deconstruction within philosophy have been
applied to building architecture, cuisine, and the law, and how we can
benefit from exporing deconstruction in software and what that would
look like.

This presentation represents the first exploration of this idea, but
it is in its infancy, and there is much to discuss. I hope together we
can advance this topic and bring to the world something useful,
exciting, and new.