Yesterday I was reading some posts regarding WCF, and found the following : "In my opinion, netTcpBinding is a very good option for us given its good performance and security options. On the other hand, it does not respect the tenets of SOA" This...

Wow, I didn't see this coming... Now, that silverlight will support Linux, I have a new citizen in my "UI Alternatives" talk. Until now, Silverlight was usually not an option for web-based applictions. Most geovernmental organizations demand a real...

There is some controversy going on regarding the need for Entity Framework when LINQ to SQL provides much of its functionality. Now, I'm far from being a fanboy of OR/M products, and usually I tend to stick to the good-ol' dataset (and that's another...

Well, hello everybody. My name is Memi Lavi, and I'm an architect in the MCS group in Microsoft Israel. I decided to open this blog so I can share some thoughts about software architectue - what is it exactly? who is an architect? what he should...