DiegumZone. Who Wanna Be An Architect? : Infrastructure

Speaking on Mission-Critical Apps at SATURN 2009 (SEI's Architecture Conference) – May 7, Pittsburgh, PA

diegumzone — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:39:00 GMT

Dear Architect,

I'll be delivering a session on "Architecting for Highly Available, Scalable, and Reliable Mission-Critical Applications" in the 5th edition of SEI Architecture Technology User Network Conference

Hope to see you there

Sincerely,

Diegum

PDC 2008. Architect's Cut

diegumzone — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:38:00 GMT

Although, except some few, almost all PDC 2008 breakout sessions are available both online or offline (previous download, of course), one may feel that bitter frustration derived from the overwhelming quantity of them

Typical questions I ask myself in these emotionally mixed situations are "Wow, what a repository of data! Will I have the time to watch and later assimilate this info!? What to watch first? What if I pick something that needs another session to be watched first, in order to get some background? Would it be some session that I could discard from the list without guilt?"... and a long list of etcs

Fortunately the team behind Microsoft Architecture Center (Microsoft's Platform Architecture Team) is here to help: we browsed the whole list of session, classifying them based on complexity, addressed topic, architectural relevance, etc, and extracted a list of about 45 sessions (the whole list tripled or quadrupled that) and we are now exposing those in the portal, but in a paced way

For these days we are exposing those 10 we consider "watchme.1st":

Framework Design Guidelines
Performance
Scalability
Cloud Computing and Azure
"Oslo" Modeling Model (redundancy apart )
Dynamic Languages
Distributed Caching
Concurrence and Parallelism

You'll find these days a video roller right in the home page where you can select the session of your interest, click on it and, voilà!: the spectacle starts when you arrive. No need to sign in, nothing else

Of course, you may maximize (you'll probably do) the video box thanks to newel Silverlight 2 technology, or eventually visit the hosting site (Channel 9) and download there the slidedeck, or -finally- a mix of everything

ASAP: Messaging Services

diegumzone — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:26:00 GMT

Resuming our training for Aspiring Architects, here we got from MS India a third series, this time focused on the Messaging Infrastructure, its planning, constraints, scalability, etc

I want to thank Ramnish Singh (Infrastructure MCA in MS India) for this contribution, that I'm confident that will help a lot IT Pros raise the bar, start thinking on computing environments in a different manner and get the necessary background and skills

The remaining ingredients in the Architecture Career prescription is up to you, guys: experience, dedication and passion! Enjoy!

Introduction to Designing a Messaging Infrastructure
The Architecture Series is intended for those involved in planning, designing, and implementing an enterprise-class infrastructure project, including consultants, system architects, and IT professionals who are responsible for messaging infrastructure deployment. The series is aimed at empowering systems integrators and IT professionals with validated architectural guidance for Messaging.

Designing and planning messaging services
This session will cover the first major design decisions when creating an Messaging infrastructure - Directory Services. The session will highlight recommend Active Directory configurations, server deployment based on best practices, budget, and other business factors, network topology and provide technical recommendations and discuss new Exchange 2007 features.

Designing and planning high availability
This session will cover high availability solution based on client types and client loads. It will also cover design of policies to handle unsolicited e-mail and virus outbreaks, disaster recovery, backup, and restore solution. The presenter will also recommend a strategy for dependent services that impact high availability.

Designing and planning coexistence and migration
This session will cover the plan for migration of messaging systems. The presenter will also discuss various migration and coexistence strategies.

Defining policies and security procedures
This session will cover how to address regulatory and legal requirements. The presenter will also discuss message content filtering and how to design a secure messaging environment.

Notes from Field and Contest Case Study
This session will showcase the best practices followed for Messaging Architecture and will have panel of experts discuss their Enterprise (Messaging) Architecture experiences.

ASAP: The Network

diegumzone — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:00:00 GMT

After the initial success of the original Aspiring Software Architects Program, there was a second series focused on Infrastructure Architecture, especially related to Identity and Group Management, network planning, availability and so on

The program was a complete success so I asked Ramnish Singh (Infrastructure MCA in MS India) for the chance of making all these available for any aspiring architect all over the world (session language is English in all cases). I want to thank Ramnish for this contribution, that I'm confident that will help a lot IT Pros raise the bar, start thinking on computing environments in a different manner and get the necessary background and skills

The remaining ingredients in the Architecture Career prescription is up to you, guys: experience, dedication and passion! Enjoy!

Introduction to Designing an Active Directory Infrastructure
The Architecture Series is intended for those involved in planning, designing, and implementing an enterprise-class infrastructure project, including consultants, system architects, and IT professionals who are responsible for directory services infrastructure development and deployment. The series is aimed at empowering systems integrators and IT professionals with validated architectural guidance for Active Directory.

Designing a Forest and Domain Infrastructure
This session will cover the first major design decisions when creating an Active Directory infrastructure - Active Directory logical structure and the design of forests and domains.

Designing a Site Infrastructure
This session explains how to design a site topology to organize the network in your organization and optimize the exchange of data and directory information.

Designing the Administrative Structure
This session explains how to design administrative structure to delegate authority and simplify administrative overhead and design an organizational unit structure.

Designing for Group Policy
This session describes how to gather and analyze business requirements and other data and then use that data to design a Group Policy structure and integrate the structure into an organizational unit design. It describes the role of Group Policy in the Active Directory infrastructure and factors in choosing particular implementations, such as security, software deployment, and administrative requirements. The session also covers why and how to design a change management structure.

Designing the Physical Network
This session describes how to gather business requirements and other data and then analyze and use that data to design the physical network. It explains how to design a connectivity infrastructure, with considerations for intrasite and intersite connectivity, router placement, connection types, and virtual private networks (VPNs).

Designing a Name Resolution Strategy
This session describes the relationship between Active Directory and DNS domain names, Windows Internet Name Service (WINS), and other name-resolution strategies.

Designing the Network Access Infrastructure
This session describes how to design a network access infrastructure by gathering relevant data, and then analyzing and using that data to design for network access security, remote access, and wireless access. The module includes strategies for authentication, administration, access monitoring, interoperability, and user education.

Designing for Federation
This session describes how to design Active Directory to support Federation. Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), a next-generation information security infrastructure designed to help IT professionals extend internal applications to external users.

Notes from Field and Contest Case Study
This session will showcase the best practices followed for Active Directory Architecture and will have panel of experts discuss their Enterprise (Active Directory) Architecture experiences.