In my previous post I talked about encapsulating capabilities as services with communication patterns supporting their mutual interactions and coordination - the so-called service capsule . In this post I'll explore communication patterns in more detail...

The Microsoft Services Business Architecture (MSBA) methodology was formerly codenamed Microsoft Motion. I will continually add to this list over time! MSBA / Motion Overview Ric Merrifield (2006), " Business in Motion, Parts 1 & 2 ", ARCast...

Introduction In my previous post I introduced the idea of a Service Capsule . Now I want to dig into the rationale for this kind of service component or concept. There are those that believe, and I am certainly one of them, that business models...

Starting with this post I'd like to delve a little deeper into the ideas I first started discussing in my talk entitled: " Service Capsules: A Language and Patterns Perspective on Service Design and Implementation ". I first became interested in Speech...

Capability Mapping: A Foundation for Service-Oriented Architecture (ARC09-TLC) Service-Oriented Architecture is a very interesting concept to many, but until it is clearly linked to business needs its rate of adoption is likely to be slow. This challenge...

After a dormant blogging period of a year and a half I've moved over to MSDN. My good friends and colleagues say I need to start talking again so hopefully this move signals a new start. I recently spoke at TechEd US 2007 in Orlando in the interactive...

Originally Created: 2006-01-16 As of Issue #7 (Feb 2006) of JOURNAL, now known as The Architecture Journal , Simon Guest will be taking over from me as Editor. Its been a great experience creating this publication and I've worked with a splendid...

Originally Created: 2005-10-17 This is an article which was inlcuded in the JAOO 2005 Conference daily newsletter of Wednesday 28 September . Acknowledgements to Scott Woodgate and Paul Andrew, Microsoft Corporation, for the core discussion presented...

Originally Created: 2005-06-27 I was reading this nice white paper on SQL Service Broker by Roger Wolter and drew a doodle as I was digesting the very interesting information given in it. I though you might find it useful: What's really cool...

Originally Created: 2005-06-27 In the last year I've been holding Architect Bootcamps all around Europe - at some great locations I must add! The idea was to huddle up with 15-20 like minded individuals in great surroundings and just talk "architecture...

Originally Created: 2005-06-27 In the UK Architecture Center update newsletter Richard Godfrey wrote about the newly announced Microsoft Certified Architect programme: A t TechEd 2005 the all new Microsoft Certified Architect programme was announced...

Originally Created: 2005-06-12 Beat Schwegler , Architect on my team, and I are holding a preconference training day at TechEd Europe 2005 entitled: Architecture Boot Camp for Building Connected Systems . We're amazed at how many people have signed...

Originally Created: 2005-06-12 Beat Schwegler , Architect on my team, informs us the latest version of his Web Service Competency Workshop can be download from here . There's ~20MB of slides and demos and in my opinion is the best set of coherent content...

Originally Created: 2005-05-14 I'm not a UI design guru but I can surely recognize a good thing when I see it! Whether you're an architect or developer the CAB from MS patterns & practices will certainly interest you. To quote from Eugenio Pace...

Originally Created: 2005-04-25 Last Thursday was fun! Ron Jacobs (Product Marketing Manager in the PAG Team) was over in UK giving a presentation on EntLib as part of the ongoing UK Architect Forum series of events. Clemens Vasters was also in UK doing...

Originally Created: 2005-01-31 It has been several years now since .NET hit the streets and created momentum around Microsoft’s vision of connecting people and processes together, anytime, anywhere and on any device. This vision was built on Web...

Originally Created: 2004-12-26 The Microsoft EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) Developer and Platform Group team that I belong to has a formidable reputation in the company. A corporate VP was once heard saying, "All good things start in EMEA...

Originally Created: 2004-09-14 Wow, I've been AWOL for far too long! Two reasons: a) It was a long and busy summer period for me which I spent worrying about how to make the next year of work as fun as the last one has been, and b) I turned off my...

Originally Created: 2004-07-27 It has been a busy few weeks at work wrapping up FY04 and planning for FY05. If we pull off the plan then loads of good things will happen. I've also been working hard to get JOURNAL out. We had a few hiccups along...

Originally Created: 2004-07-27 I just had to alert you to a recording of The Nerd, The Suit, and the Fortune Teller which was amongst the finest sessions of the Architecture track at TechEd Europe 2004. As the track owner, I can't say I was overly...

Originally Created: 2004-07-10 MS just launched the Microsoft Community Blogs Portal , a searchable listing of blogs by Microsoft employees, categorized by product or technology topic. The project also makes it easier for pages across Microsoft.com...

Originally Created: 2004-07-07 So, while I've been waxing lyrical about FABRIQ's beautiful pipeline architecture and how it can be used to compose primitive functionality into bigger pieces and how these can be distributed all over the place, etc....

Originally Created: 2004-07-06 What is it? FABRIQ is a light weight, high performance, scalable, one-way only, asynchronous, XML messaging system written in managed code using the .NET Framework, Microsoft Messaging, Enterprise Services and WSE...

Originally Created: 2004-07-05 Bye, bye Mr. CIO guy... Gonna outsource every resource ‘til the business runs dry... Pat Helland debuted his latest song at TechEd Europe with Don Box and David Chappell playing backup. He received a 2 minute standing...

Originally Created: 2004-06-26 FABRIQ is a general purpose infrastructure for building fast and scalable networks of autonomous nodes for processing and relaying messages. A node is an implementation of a processing pipeline composed of reusable primitive...