As a widely recognized thought leader on asynchronous messaging and service-oriented architectures. he co-authored the seminal book ‘Enterprise Integration Patterns’ (Addison-Wesley, 2004) and contributed to a variety of publications, including “97 Things Every Architect Should Know”. In 2005, Joel Spolsky selected Gregor’s article ‘Starbucks Does Not Use Two-phase Commit’ for his ‘Best Software Writing’. Find out more about his work at eaipatterns.com.