Abstract.A major part of Information Systems suffers evolution issues in time because they have not been designed from the beginning but started with disparate pieces of software put together without a big picture vision of what it would become ten years afterwards. Industrialization is highly needed, but very rare at the moment, as IT still needs modularization and standardization. By showing a Lego™ Technic-based simulation of an Information System, concepts of coupling, middleware, Entreprise Integration Patterns like Multiplex and Wiretap, orchestration and choreography can be explained in a very concrete and practical way, making people wonder why we do not do the same with software (hint : because norms and standards are less used).
Biography.Jean-Philippe Gouigoux is the Group CTO of TSS France, supervising the activity of 20 software editors. He is the author of a dozen technical books on .NET, OpenData, Docker, Kubernetes and Entreprise Architecture. He regularly speaks at conference and university courses, and has co-authored several articles on services architecture (ECSA, ICSA, etc.).