David Mooter
Senior Analyst
David leads clients with a particular emphasis on business-first design principles and how application architectures such as APIs foster innovation and sustainable business flexibility. His research focuses on architectural topics such as integration, API strategy and management, event-driven architecture, and microservices.
Previous Work Experience
David has extensive experience with IT architecture. At Progressive Insurance, he led successful efforts to modernize the company’s decades-old policy servicing system and led its technical strategy for APIs, integration, and event streaming. His IT experience also includes technology leadership, software design and development, and cofounding a successful online game business.
Education
David received a Bachelor of Applied Science, summa cum laude, in systems analysis with a minor in mathematics from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
David Mooter's Most Recent Research
Use Event-Driven Architecture In Your Quest For Modern Applications
Leverage Five Key EDA Patterns To Avoid Painful Pitfalls
The growth of distributed application architecture hits a brick wall when only using synchronous APIs for integration due to fragility and scalability...
17 min readThe Forrester Wave™: Function-As-A-Service Platforms, Q1 2021
The Nine Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up
In Forrester's 40-criterion evaluation of function-as-a-service (FaaS) platforms, we identified the nine most significant ones — Alibaba, Amazon, Google...
13 min readEmbrace Event-Driven Architecture To Drive Agility, New Channels, And New Partnerships
Event-Driven Architecture Is The Key To Unlock Your Data Silos
As data continues to grow in value, it is vital that businesses unsilo their data. Rapid growth, the pivot to public cloud, and M&A make data integration...
7 min readEvent-Driven Architecture And Design: Five Big Mistakes And Five Best Practices
Event-Driven Patterns Address Key Business And Technical Scenarios
Excellence in customer experience and business operations is often a matter of timing, and proactive timing is a matter for events. Software-based event-driven...
7 min readAPI Insecurity: The Lurking Threat In Your Software
Design And Build API Security Top To Bottom, End To End Across The Software Lifecycle
From simple internal flows between parts of a microservice app to major B2B transactions worth millions, APIs serve a huge range of scenarios, users, and...
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