Ivan’s agile thinkings

InfoQ is one of my favourite techy sites on the interweb.  It’s full of really great presentations, interviews and articles about many different aspects of software development.Here’s an example where Marc de Graauw writes about not needing reliable messaging.  If the business operation needs to be once-and-once-only or the operations need to be in-order then the mechanics should be pushed down into the business message/processing.  Don’t leave this to the transport layer, create appropriate idempotent operations and most of the problems go away.If you don’t already have InfoQ on your feed list then I can’t recommend adding it in enough