Architecture

Viral Data in SOA: An Enterprise Pandemic

A services-based IT solution such as "A Single View of the Customer", is typically deployed for use as an enterprise-wide business application. The...

0 replies - 946 views - 10/12/09 by Masoud Kalali in News

Architecture Review Process

A formal "Architecture Review Process" can be a very efficient way to understand how the existing system work via interaction with...

0 replies - 1290 views - 10/08/09 by riho in News

Re-engineer Legacy Architecture

Legacy system may sound like a negative term, but in fact it is the result of a successful system with well adoption. Most legacy systems lies in the core...

1 replies - 2699 views - 10/08/09 by riho in Articles

Coding: Rules of Thumb

I recently came across a post by Ayende where he talks about the need for tests to justify themselves and describes his approach to testing which doesn't...

0 replies - 1320 views - 10/05/09 by markhneedham in News

PaaS as a satisfying and success-ready hobbyist plaform

I don’t know anyone in Silicon Valley who can code and doesn’t fantasize about writing an accidental killer app. One that gets designed during a long...

0 replies - 683 views - 10/05/09 by vambenepe in News

Performance Considerations in Distributed Applications

Distribution and Communication between applications and services is a central concept in modern application architectures. In order to profit from distribution...

1 replies - 3530 views - 09/30/09 by AloisReitbauer in News

Look Ma, no hypervisor!

Encouraged by hypervisor vendors, the confusion between virtualization and Cloud Computing is rampant. In the industry, the term “virtualization” (and its...

0 replies - 487 views - 09/29/09 by vambenepe in News

RESTful SOA with Open Source

With the exponential growth of the Web, REST as an architectural style [REF-1] has found its niche in the modern services landscape with its popularity poised...

3 replies - 3890 views - 09/29/09 by Masoud Kalali in News

Book Giveaway & Chapter Download: Mastering Oracle Scheduler in Oracle 11g Databases

DZone and Packt Publishing have partnered to bring you this exclusive chapter from 'Mastering Oracle Scheduler in Oracle 11g Databases' (by Ronald Rood). This...

2 replies - 2670 views - 09/23/09 by lyndsey in Articles

Agile Architecture, Lean Principles

Most of my discussions surrounding agile architecture have been focused on exploring how modularity helps increase architectural agility. I claim that...

1 replies - 2931 views - 09/23/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in Articles

Service Error Content Patterns (Part II)

In the previous article of the two-part "Service Error Content Patterns" article series, we established some of the common problems and challenges...

0 replies - 1150 views - 09/21/09 by Masoud Kalali in News

Book Giveaway & Exclusive Chapter: Modular Java

DZone and Pragmatic Bookshelf have partnered to bring you this exclusive chapter from 'Modular Java' (by Craig Walls). This excerpt was extracted from Modular...

11 replies - 3676 views - 09/15/09 by lyndsey in Articles

Toolkits to wrap and bridge Cloud management protocols

Cloud development toolkits like Libcloud (for Python) and jcloud (for Java) have been around for some time, but over the last two months they have been joined...

0 replies - 435 views - 09/15/09 by vambenepe in News

SOA Pattern (#8): ESB (Enterprise Service Bus)

The ESB is a compound pattern that pulls together many enablement and enforcement capabilities that come in handy to the SOA practitioner. Thomas Rischbeck...

0 replies - 1621 views - 09/10/09 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

Separating model from protocol in Cloud APIs

What happened to the separation between the model and the protocol in management APIs?

0 replies - 319 views - 09/09/09 by vambenepe in News