Architecture

Top 6 Open Source Java EE Application Servers

 This is a very basic review of active and available open source Java EE Application servers and Servlet container (Web containers) to let the community...

5 replies - 5005 views - 11/16/09 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

Notes on Memcached

Some notes about Memcached. Here is its architecture.How it works ?

0 replies - 1349 views - 11/02/09 by riho in News

Process Not Working -- Must Have More Process

After all, programmers are all lazy and stupid.Got his complaint recently."Developers on a fairly routine basis check in code into the wrong...

1 replies - 803 views - 10/28/09 by slott in News

Who's in control of the Flow?

Flow control is something important architect's must not overlook. Let's see which strategies do people follow to control the flow...

0 replies - 714 views - 08/07/09 by wmartinez in News

Clearing Doubts About SOA Concepts

From many talks, blogs, case studies and reviews, I have collected a list of conceptions of what people think SOA is. Here is a discussion about it.

0 replies - 951 views - 08/04/09 by wmartinez in News

What is maintainability anyway?

Reacting to a comment left by Frans Bauma, Ayende recently

1 replies - 845 views - 08/03/09 by arnonrgo in News

Between Elasticity and Scalability

Followup on an interesting question being asked in the Cloud Computing Forum.Definition of Scalability

0 replies - 502 views - 07/22/09 by riho in News

Intuition, Performance, and Scale

Intuition is a double-edged sword. A blessing and a curse as it were. Intuition is knowing something with a reasonable sense of certainty without any...

0 replies - 516 views - 07/02/09 by driveawedge in News

The Role of Caching in Large Scale Architecture

Pre-Internet, lots of systems were built without caches. The need to scale has led to the widespread deployment of caching. Most of the open source caching...

4 replies - 6405 views - 06/15/09 by gregrluck in Articles

UML failed so here we have AML (Arbitrary Modeling Language)

UML is a failure. It failed for several reasons. Mainly, it failed because it falls into the cracks between technical people (developers, architects) and...

5 replies - 1574 views - 06/11/09 by nealford in News

The Relationship Between SOA, BPM & EA

A colleague recently sent me some IBM propaganda on SOA, BPM and EA. Discussing my opinion of the white paper with him sparked an idea for a blog entry about...

3 replies - 1865 views - 05/26/09 by jpmorgenthal in News

Architecture is a Craft

Yesterday, I read Fowler’s “Who Needs an Architect” , which is an odd piece that never really answer the question to my liking, but it did get me...

1 replies - 1373 views - 05/25/09 by jpmorgenthal in News

Modularizing existing web applications with OSGi

 OSGi modularization on the server side is well embraced by vendors (Spring DM Server et. al.). OSGi provides "true modules". With OSGi, we can...

0 replies - 10670 views - 03/30/09 by wgehner in Articles

An Evolving Architecture?

Neal Ford from ThoughtWorks, recently wrote an article that is the first of a series related to architecturing and design called Evolutionary Architecture and...

0 replies - 1009 views - 03/25/09 by wmartinez in News

Big Teams & Agility - Take 2

In Big Teams & Agility, I talked about a macro process for agile development on large teams (those up to, possibly exceeding, 100 developers).

1 replies - 2328 views - 03/12/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News