The Agile Architecture Revolution: How Cloud Computing, REST-Based SOA, and Mobile Computing Are Changing Enterprise IT -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Part One-Enterprise as Complex System -- Chapter 1: Introducing Agile Architecture -- Deconstructing Agile -- Architecting Software/Human Systems -- Meta Thinking and Agile Architecture -- Defining Architecture: Worse Than Herding Cats -- Why Nobody Is Doing Enterprise Architecture -- Complex Systems: At the Heart of Agile Architecture -- Chapter 2: Shhh, Don't Tell Anyone, but Let's Talk about Service- Oriented Architecture -- Rumors of SOA's Demise . . . -- Thinking Outside the SOA Box -- Okay, So How Did SOA End Up Dead in the First Place? -- Services: The Core SOA Lesson -- Implementing Policy-Driven Behavior -- What's the Deal with Web Services? -- The Third Conversation -- Freeing Architecture from the Underlying Infrastructure -- Implementing SOA without an ESB -- The SOA Marketing Paradox and the Wizard of Oz -- Chapter 3: Governance: The Secret to Satisfying the Business Agility Meta-Requirement -- Organizational Context for Governance -- Architecture-Driven Governance: Beyond IT Governance -- Rethinking Quality -- Introducing the Agility Model -- Meta-Policy Governance -- Interrelationships among Governance, Quality, and Management -- Four Stages of Agile Architecture Governance -- Architecture-Driven Governance and the Butterfly Effect -- Chapter 4: The Enterprise as Complex System -- Engineering the Enterprise with Complex Systems Engineering -- Best-Effort Quality and the Agile Architecture Quality Star -- Best-Effort Quality in Action -- Resilience: The Flip Side of Agility -- The Flash Mob Enterprise -- Chapter 5: Agile Architecture in Practice -- The Composition Vision for IT -- Vision to Reality: Rethinking Integration -- Aligning Agile Architecture with BPM.

Business Modeling and Agile Architecture -- Processes That Satisfy the Meta-Requirement of Agility -- Part Two-The ZapThink 2020 Vision -- Chapter 6: You Say You Want a Revolution . . . -- Five Supertrends of Enterprise IT -- Continuous Business Transformation: At the Center of ZapThink 2020 -- Where's Our Deep Interoperability? -- The Crisis Points of the ZapThink 2020 Vision -- Big Data Explosion and the Christmas Day Bomber -- Stuxnet and Wikileaks: Harbingers of Cyberwar -- Cybersecurity the Agile Architecture Way -- The Generation Y Crisis Point -- Chapter 7: The Democratization of Enterprise IT -- Demise of the Enterprise IT Department -- The Agile Architecture Approach to IT Project Management -- Crisis Point: The Enterprise Application Crash -- Replacing Enterprise Software: Easier Said than Done -- Part Three-Implementing Agile Architecture -- Chapter 8: Deep Interoperability: Getting REST Right (Finally!) -- Programmable Interfaces: The Never-Ending Story -- REST to the Rescue -- Dogmatic vs. Iconoclastic REST -- REST vs. Web Services -- Can REST Fix Web Services? -- Does REST Provide Deep Interoperability? -- Where Is the SOA in REST-Based SOA? -- REST-Based SOA: An Iconoclastic Approach -- Chapter 9: Finally, Let's Move to the Cloud -- Déjà Vu All Over Again -- Countering Vendor Spin with Architecture -- Interlude: Neutralizing the Cloud Threat -- Why Cloud Computing Scares the Platform Vendors -- Architecting beyond Cloud Computing's Horseless Carriage -- BASE Jumping in the Cloud: Rethinking Data Consistency -- Cloud Multitenancy: More than Meets the Eye -- Keys to Enterprise Public Cloud -- Why Public Clouds Are More Secure than Private Clouds -- Why You Really, Truly Don't Want a Private Cloud -- Avoiding Unexpected Cloud Economics Pitfalls -- Rethinking Cloud Service Level Agreements -- Are Your Software Licenses Cloud Friendly?.

Garbage in the Cloud -- Beware Fake Clouds -- Learning the Right Lessons from the 2011 and 2012 Amazon Crashes -- Failure Is the Only Option -- Cloud Configuration Management: Where the Rubber Hits the Clouds -- Clouds, SOA, REST, and State -- The Secret of a RESTful Cloud -- BPM in the Cloud: Disruptive Technology -- Cloud-Oriented Architecture and the Internet of Things -- Location Independence: The Buckaroo Banzai Effect -- Postscript: The Cloud Is the Computer -- Chapter 10: Can We Do Agile Enterprise Architecture? -- Frameworks and Methodologies and Styles, Oh My! -- The Beginning of the End for Enterprise Architecture Frameworks -- How to Buy an Agile Architecture -- The Dangers of Checklist Architecture -- Conclusion -- List of Abbreviations -- About the Author -- Index.