Nicolai Josuttis (www.josuttis.com, nj@it-communication.com) is an independent system architect, technical manager, author, and consultant. He designs mid-sized and large software systems for the telecommunication, traffic, finance, and manufacturing industries. He is well known both in the SOA and C++ Community and to attendees at various conferences. He not only speaks and writes with authority (being the author of ‘SOA in Practice’, ‘The C++ Standard Library’ and ‘C++ Templates’) but is also an innovative presenter. Together with Jutta Eckstein he is a partner of IT-communication.com, two world-leading experts for the successful realization of large and distributed IT projects in practice. Recently, he was a team lead for the realization of a SOA at an international mobile phone company running up to 10 Million service calls per day.