Everything that you read these days seems to suggest that you should be moving to the cloud. But where do you start? Which applications and services should you be moving? How do you build the bridge between on-premises and the cloud? And more importantly...

How do you build line-of-business applications in Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) that can be maintained and extended over a period of years? How do you design and code to handle real-world complexity? Composite Application Guidance...

See the sharing of a real life example of a scalable network architecture…. **************************** ThePort Network's Director of Engineering, TJ Muehleman was kind of enough to share some of the architectural details for their white label social...

You may find that you already know most of them if  not all. But worth revisiting and rethinking…. *************************** 1. Asynchronous - Use asynchronous communication when possible. 2. Swim Lanes – Create fault isolated “swim lanes” of hardware...

Another interesting article from Gartner on new approach to enterprise architecture, worth reading! ******************* Enterprise architects must adopt a new style of enterprise architecture (EA) to respond to the growing variety and complexity in markets...

A good article here to ask yourself if you are planning to build an IT strategy…. Even as modern economic activities rely heavily on sound IT strategies, many organizations fail to take advantage of the many opportunities that technology can provide....

This report summarizes a workshop on architecture competence that was held at the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI) in June of 2008.  The SEI invited accomplished practitioners from government, academia, and industry to discuss...

The ongoing economy unraveling is the defining moment of our time. Many professional developers are fearful for their livelihood, as employers and customers cut and slash development plans, and as economic activity grinds to a halt. But not everywhere...