New Technical Article on SharePoint Architecture (Ricky Kirkham)

MSDN has published a long technical article of mine on SharePoint Architecture.  I should actually say “architectures” because, as I point out in the article, SharePoint has a lot more than one architecture.  I cannot claim that it will tell you everything that you need to know about SharePoint’s plumbing, but it will tell you a lot.

It has 15,000 words and 11 diagrams on the following subjects:

• What Is SharePoint?
• SharePoint Development Platform Stack
• SharePoint as an ASP.NET-IIS Application
• SharePoint Configuration Stack
• SharePoint Deployment Models
• Process and Execution Trust Model
• Pages, Parsing, and Safe Mode
• Data Model, Data Management, and Query System
• Services and the Service Application Framework
• Site Definitions and Web Templates
• SharePoint Security
• Server Object Model in SharePoint
• Client Object Models in SharePoint
• Workflows in SharePoint

Here’s the link:

SharePoint 2010 Architectures Overview