My friend Alik just sent me to a pointer to a Survival Guide he is working on for the Azure ACS. The survival guide is intended to help provide a standardized means of organizing topics related to a particular domain such as access control. Looks like a good start for anyone working with ACS. Best part...

Over the last couple of months I have been working on a Reference Architecture to support the design of modern Distributed Applications - now increasingly being referred to as Composite Applications. I am going to post a number of blogs over the coming weeks to share some of the learnings / highlights...

I am presenting a discussion on SOA, S+S and Cloud computing later today at SOA Symposium . I have included the abstract for the talk and the slides that will be used in the presentation for anyone interested. Organizations evaluating Software + Services and Cloud Computing offerings must first...

I presented a discussion on SOA Security Patterns at the SOA Symposium today in Rotterdam. The abstract fro the talk is included below and the PPT is attached for anyone interested. Service-oriented solutions are distributed applications and therefore rely on many of the established security controls...

About a 18 months ago Thomas Erl approached a group of us at Microsoft if we could review the SOA Patterns work he was doing. Whilst doing the review I observed that the book was lacking any patterns describing how to think about security within SOA applications. We talked and decided to add two whole...

Diegon Dagum has just sent out the release note for the latest edition of the Microsoft Architecture Journal. It includes a bunch of really interesting papers including one that myself and a group of my colleagues from Worldwide Services put together summarizing key design considerations for Software...

Last October we ran a SOA workshop in Redmond, with the goal being to have members of the MCS field, global practices and other customer facing organizations discuss scenarios and patterns that they see on a regular basis. Having run several of these workshops in the psat, one challenge that is hard...

Another blog that is several months late, but as usual, better late than never. I am currently preparing my presentation for tomorrow's Real World SOA: Microsoft SOA and Business Process Conference I finally made the time to read Danny Garber's paper on Agent-Design Patterns and it was well worth the...

This one is a little late to press, but for those who haven't already seen it the Architecture Journal recently published an article on Distributed Computing Patterns that myself, Joshy Joseph, Dmitri Ossipov, Massimo Mascaro and Danny Garber wrote. You can find the article here .