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The Alignment Trap

Matt M. makes an interesting observation here:

but I still haven't felt the need to install an Enterprise Service Bus. (Despite the fact that I more or less use it as a design pattern for integration architectures, just without the overhead of actually having it be a running piece of software)

Take a step back and look at that quote. Matt M. seems bemused by the fact this quote expresses. My reaction: why? Think about it for a sec. What could explain this? Could it be that the best explanation is that ESB is a pattern (at most), not a thing, and that there are levels of abstraction where it makes sense as a pattern. But there are no levels of abstraction where it makes sense as a thing.

Imagine that.