Architecting an enterprise or web application for high performance, scale, and availability can be a challenge without an appropriate caching strategy. One approach is to leverage a distributed caching platform to support the needs of performance, scale...

A good article below on how business and technology are closely knitted and business technology should be in the grand plan…. Technology is business and we can't run our companies without it. Business Technology (BT) is the largest single technology-management...

Social networking has become an integral part of most people’s life. In fact, in offices, you would see lots of people accessing their Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc while working. ZDNet did a survey in US and discovered that 71% of IT departments actually...

On 30 – 31 March 2009, at Weston Manor, Oxford UK a group of senior IT architects from across the industry met to consider the coming ‘Cloud’. What it is, what it means for business and the software profession and what has Microsoft been up to in the...

A great short introduction to the techniques of visual representation for information has been released by the Tactical Technology Collective: http://www.tacticaltech.org/infodesign It covers the basics for how to tell a clear and compelling and convincing...

Here’s a great presentation about what Azure is  - and also shows how to use simple whiteboard graphics to get the message across. http://blog.smarx.com/posts/what-is-windows-azure-a-hand-drawn-video Thanks go to Simon Thurman for pointing this out...

Most people have heard of CMMI, not sure how many people know about P-CMM. I always strongly believe that people element is always very critical to the success of a project…. read more at the SEI web site… ******** The People Capability Maturity Model...

Interesting article below…. IT architects should be brought in earlier in the process if organizations are embarking on business process management… I totally agree!!! ********* Organizations embarking on business process management need to bring in IT...

On 30 – 31 March 2009, at Weston Manor, Oxford UK a group of senior IT architects from across the industry met to consider the coming ‘Cloud’. What it is, what it means for business and the software profession and what has Microsoft been up to in the...

In this interview, Kevin Israel , Visual Studio Team System MVP , shares with Zhiming Xue his thoughts on implementation of a hybrid architecture based on SOA and ROA in the enterprise space. Kevin explains what Resource Oriented Architecture (ROA) is...

With effect from 4 July 2009, I will be moving on to a new role in Microsoft and that is Senior Project Manager with Microsoft Consulting Services in Singapore. My portfolio includes project management and presales engagement, focusing primarily on application...

The second Architect Council for year 2009 was held on 10 Jun at Microsoft office. The theme was around Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). In the morning, we had 68 attendees. We covered overview of ALM, NCS consultants who spoke about their ALM...

Microsoft patterns & practices is excited to announce the latest addition to the p&p library of software engineering guidance: Acceptance Test Engineering Guide, Volume I (BETA 2) Quick Links – Codeplex site: http://codeplex.com/TestingGuidance...