I recently published Dealing with the "Melted Cheese Effect" , the first of what should become a series. Here's my attempt at the second article. Contracts Introduction In the first article in this series, Dealing with the “Melted Cheese Effect...

I should have said where to expect the Journal 4. The journal 4 will be on: http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/ feed: http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/rss.xml A previous journal can be found at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp...

For a long time now, I have been thinking about exposing the functionality of services. I called that the “ what of services ". The WSDL and the complete WS* stack to me are the " how of services ", how to encode the message, how to encode the payload...

It took a while, but my “ CRUD, Only When You Can Afford It ” article has finally been published. I’ve been working with Jon Tobey on my articles to make them more readable and more consistent. I can tell you, when he returned my first draft (the blog...

Razorbills What and How of Service Consumption Why did the razorbill raise her bill? Because the sea urchin would see her chin! Less than five years ago, I read a Microsoft internal memo called “ Sea Urchins ”. This paper pushed for using XML as the communication...

So, I did a little more work on it and I hope I addressed the feedback in it. I don't think I'll be providing code anywhere soon though. I hope that the project that David Hill and I are doing together with msdn “Patterns and Practices”, we...

Maarten’s theorem Not knowing your dependencies is the tightest form of coupling Maarten’s corollary Reducing your dependencies is important; however, knowing and understanding your dependencies is far more important.

After my article on Dealing with Concurrency: Designing Interaction Between Services and Their Agents (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnbda/html/concurev4M.asp) and my talks at the TechEd in Amsterdam , I thought I needed to express my thoughts...