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Thursday, September 03, 2009 9:45 PM

Exploring the Service Provider track – Fabrikam Shipping Part II (Solution)

Now that we presented the scenario & the requirements , let’s take a look at the solution. What is conceptual solution we propose? Fabrikam Shipping in the pre-Claims era: This diagram shows Fabrikam Shipping today if used by Adatum (no claims, no
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Tuesday, September 01, 2009 3:57 PM

Exploring the Service Provider track – First station: Fabrikam Shipping – Part I (the scenario & challenges)

Once again, thanks everybody that wrote us with reviews, feedback and suggestions! Please keep it coming! Also: we hope to have soon a CodePlex site where we can start sharing more. We are still working out some details. As usual, the Disclaimer: this
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009 1:02 PM

Announcing new project – patterns & practices - Claims based Authentication & Authorization Guide

For the next couple of months I’ll be working on a new project here at patterns & practices , developing a new guide for claims based authentication and authorization. I’m personally very happy to be working on this project, for many reasons. I believe
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Friday, June 12, 2009 12:03 PM

First experiments with (new) SQL Data Services

Last week I got my new login to the new SQL Data Services . As a reminder for all readers: SDS accelerates its plans to offer relational capabilities May 11, 2009 - Based on customer feedback, SDS has accelerated its plans and will be offering true relational
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 4:42 PM

Windows Azure 101 – Primitives and Application Patterns – Playing Mendeleyev

Windows Azure’s primitives are very simple, but as in many other things, the power comes from the combination of these simpler primitives to create more complex things. Look around and see how many things can be assembled from a little more than 100 “simple”
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Monday, March 16, 2009 1:09 PM

Azure IssueTracker Enterprise - Simple Demos

Provisioning IssueTracker Enterprise: Highlights: There’s no direct interaction with Access Control Service. IssueTracker uses ACS API to create the scopes, rules and the issuer (Contoso). The provisioning form captures all the required information to
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Thursday, March 12, 2009 3:41 PM

Architecting Cloud Application for the Enterprise – Part V – Management

Having solved the identity issue, the SuperCloudySoftware team focuses then on the management requirements raised in the meeting with VeryBigCorp CIO. To recap, they want to: Be able to to monitor IssueTracker from their existing infrastructure, that
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Monday, March 09, 2009 8:15 PM

Architecting Cloud Applications for the Enterprise – Part IV - SuperCloudySoftware sketches IssueTracker Enterprise Edition

In the previous article , we explored the challenges of building services for an enterprise, illustrating those through a dialogue between VeryBigCorp CIO and a team from SuperCloudySoftware . VBC requirements can be summarized as: Identity integration
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009 4:37 PM

The need for “standards for application logic” in PaaS. Really?

In his latest post on Coghead’s demise, Phil argues that: “ What this highlights is the lack of any standard for transferring not just data but application logic between such platforms.” My argument is that those standards already exist and are widely
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008 9:50 AM

Architecting Cloud Applications for the Enterprise - Part III - SuperCloudySoftware meets VeryBigCorp CIO

Actors : the CIO at VeryBigCorp , John ( SuperCloudySoftware's CEO) and a bunch of senior developers and architects. CIO : Gentlemen, welcome. Let me start by saying that our internal Customer is absolutely fascinated with your application. Believe me,
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Sunday, December 07, 2008 9:02 PM

Architecting Cloud Applications for the Enterprise - Part II - VeryBigCorp buys IssueTracker

Now that we have introduced our characters, we will start this story describing the acquisition process of IssueTracker in VeryBigCorp . IssueTracker was first used in VBC by a very limited number of people. Someone in some business unit somehow learnt
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Friday, December 05, 2008 11:14 AM

Architecting Cloud Applications for the Enterprise - Part I - Introducing the Actors

I will start this series by introducing the main characters of our scenario. First, we have VeryBigCorp . VBC is a large corporation, with multiple branches and subsidiaries, thousands of employees, etc. VBC is the typical organization with a rather complex
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Thursday, December 04, 2008 4:08 AM

Architecting Cloud Services for the Big Enterprise

For the last couple of months, we’ve been working on scenarios that involve consuming cloud services and applications from "Big Enterprise" . The focus being the technical obstacles for adopting cloud services. Big Enterprise is the moniker we use to
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Thursday, September 11, 2008 8:32 PM

Northwind Hosting exists, it's better than what you saw and it's called SaaSGrid

Sinclair Schuller , CEO of Apprenda was kind enough to demo SaaSGrid to me earlier this week, patient enough to answer all my questions and I have to say, that I'm really impressed. What is SaaSGrid? In their own words: If you're building an on-demand
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Sunday, April 27, 2008 1:51 PM

End to end demo of LitwareHR on SSDS

Here's an end-to-end demo of LitwareHR using SSDS. The total demo lasts about 11 min and you will see: Tenant Provisioning and customization (takes the first 5 min approximately). I show the initial tenant provisioning (creation of a new tenant in LitwareHR,
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