Architecture

Latency is constant - not!

If you read this blog regularily you've probably heard/read about the 8 fallacies of distributed computing once or twice ...

0 replies - 1495 views - 01/26/09 by arnonrgo in News

Deferring architectural decisions

When describing the "known exceptions" to the Knot anti-pattern, I wrote the following:Starting out on a large project, such as moving an enterprise...

2 replies - 1729 views - 01/14/09 by arnonrgo in News

SOA Anti-Pattern : The Knot

Everything starts oh so well. Embarking on a new SOA initiative the whole team feels as if it is pure green field development. We venture on - The first...

0 replies - 1979 views - 01/07/09 by arnonrgo in Articles

SOA Patterns Refcard Available - Download Now

SOA patterns describe common architectures, implementations, and their areas of application to help in the planning, implementation, deployment, operation, and...

1 replies - 4983 views - 01/04/09 by Jill Tomich in Articles

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Refactoring: Why, Where, When and How

 Arthur Dent was a Visual Basic spaghetti coder. Now, I have nothing against Visual Basic programmers,  don't get me wrong. There are some people...

0 replies - 723 views - 10/13/08 by sarajo in News

Are Data Warehouses Dinosaurs?

As anybody that follows my blog knows, I am not a fan of vertical scaling. I don't like solutions that can only be implemented in a single address and storage...

0 replies - 1083 views - 09/22/08 by driveawedge in News

Microsoft Visual Studio - Oslo

The recent announcement that Microsoft is joining the OMG is a major step to provide modeling solutions at different abstraction levels. Furthermore, the...

0 replies - 1726 views - 09/12/08 by guntherlenz in Articles

Top 10 SOA Pitfalls: Wrap-up

The Top 10 SOA Pitfalls countdown hit #1 last week with Rik de Groot's post on "Ignoring culture when introducing SOA", time for a wrap-up.

0 replies - 2547 views - 07/14/08 by gerovermaas in Articles

Defining & Testing Java Application Architectures with ztest

One of the important aspects of software systems is architecture.Every software application has an inner structure, defined by the classes it contains and the...

0 replies - 2471 views - 07/12/08 by Gerd Ziegler in Articles

Top Down SOA: Aligning Business Functions

We constantly hear about SOA and its value to the enterprise and, today, there is certainly something called SOA-hype.  Like all hype, the real value gets...

0 replies - 989 views - 07/01/08 by Aslam Khan in Articles

Top 10 SOA Pitfalls: #4 - Incorrectly applied Canonical Data Model

Earlier this week Vincent explained the BDUF Pitfall en this week we’ll continue with #4: Incorrectly applied Canonical Data Model (CDM).CDM is one of the...

0 replies - 2894 views - 06/26/08 by gerovermaas in Articles

Top 10 SOA Pitfalls: #5 - Big Design Up Front

A few days ago Rik de Groot discussed pitfall #6 - which means we've now passed the halfway point of SOA Pitfall countdown! Let's quickly move on to #5.

0 replies - 2570 views - 06/24/08 by vpartington in Articles

An Introduction to Software Factories

In this article, Gunther Lenz, Microsoft ISV Architect Evangelist, introduces Software Factories from the perspective of a small to medium size software...

0 replies - 3639 views - 06/17/08 by guntherlenz in Articles

Top 10 SOA Pitfalls: #7 - Incorrect granularity of services

After discussing #8: Security, let's move on to #7.Incorrect granularity could mean that a service covers too much functionality or too little functionality....

1 replies - 3237 views - 06/17/08 by gerovermaas in Articles

Upload Files Like Gmail - Client Side Gmail Architecture Part 2

In this follow up to the very popular first part of the Gmail Client Side Architecture series we will be looking at how Google handles the file upload process...

0 replies - 10101 views - 06/16/08 by Schalk Neethling in News