This week I gave a talk at the SOAWorld Conference in New York. The focus was a discussion of recent SOA disasters and the challenges in managing large scale SOA architectures with examples from Citigroup, United Airlines, Research in Motion and Salesforce.com. We looked at the pluses and minuses of tools like business activity monitors, web session monitors, dependency mapping, change control and IT Search.

The audience was a mix of 75 software developers and IT architects. A good discussion followed about correlating large-scale data, anonymizing data sources and different models for mapping access controls to SOA message data.

Earlier this year