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Abstraction Works Only in a Perfect World

Richard Hopkins and Kevin Jenkins
12.01.2008
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As a registered member of SearchSOA.com, you're entitled to a complimentary excerpt from the book Eating the IT Elephant: Moving from Greenfield Development to Brownfield written by Richard Hopkins and Kevin Jenkins and published by IBM Press. "Abstraction Works Only in a Perfect World" focuses on how IT systems have grown increasingly larger and more complex over time.

Eating the IT Elephant: Moving from Greenfield Development to Brownfield

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This chapter examines the necessary technical context, requirements, and characteristics of the "IT Elephant Eater." The chapter then goes on to analyze existing IT elephant-eating approaches and highlights the problems these approaches present with their extensive use of decomposition and abstraction.

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