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Geographically Distributed High Availability

This is the last post in the series on business continuity. It briefly describes how the service...

Author: JackGre Date: 12/26/2011

Disaster Recovery

While the Azure platform provides high availability within a single data center, as discussed in the...

Author: JackGre Date: 10/23/2011

High Availability On The Azure Platform

Currently, both Windows Azure and SQL Azure offer high availability within a single data center. As...

Author: JackGre Date: 10/22/2011

Business Continuity Basics

This post describes the basics of business continuity. Business continuity poses both business and...

Author: JackGre Date: 10/19/2011

Business Continuity On Azure

Azure customers want their services to be continuously available to their users, despite component...

Author: JackGre Date: 10/18/2011

Remembering Steve by Remembering NeXT

Last week, JJ Dubray asked me to write something about NeXT in Steve's honor for InfoQ. It's part of...

Author: JackGre Date: 10/11/2011

FabrikamJets Example Updated (Really)

I just discovered that the 2.0 release of the Fabrikam Jets example on code gallery (described in...

Author: JackGre Date: 07/08/2010

Silverlight Samples for OData Over SQL Azure

I've just published a some code samples that show how to build a Silverlight client for the OData...

Author: JackGre Date: 04/20/2010

Silverlight Clients and AppFabric Access Control

As described in my previous post, I've just finished building some Silverlight clients and a portal...

Author: JackGre Date: 04/19/2010

How to Use OData for SQL Azure with AppFabric Access Control

[Created - April 16, 2010] [Updated - October 5, 2010 - Revised text and URIs to refer to ACS...

Author: JackGre Date: 04/16/2010

FabrikamJets Example Updated to AppFabric Access Control V1

I just finished migrating the FabrikamJets example from the CTP to V1 of AppFabric Access Control....

Author: JackGre Date: 01/08/2010

It's a wrap... WRAP v0.9 to be precise...

I just finished migrating the integration between Microsoft Codename "Dallas" and Microsoft...

Author: JackGre Date: 12/16/2009

Fabrikam Jets - Integrating Codename "Dallas" with AppFabric Access Control

I recently posted a screencast of an integration between Microsoft AppFabric Access Control and...

Author: JackGre Date: 12/08/2009

A New Team, A New Mission

Just over a month ago, I moved from p&p to the Cloud Services Team (CST), which is part of the...

Author: JackGre Date: 12/03/2009

Software Factories Focus Groups at Tech Ed 2008 in Orlando

Michael Lehman, creator of two factory based initiatives, S+S Blueprints and Project Glidepath, will...

Author: JackGre Date: 06/05/2008

Articles on Software Factories

I recently published an article on using software factories in supply chains for Methods and Tools....

Author: JackGre Date: 10/10/2007

Views and Patterns in VSTS

Recently, some of our partners asked how best VSTS allows the architect to define architectural...

Author: JackGre Date: 11/24/2006

Performance Analysis and Prediction

Irfan Idrees wrote with the observation that while performance analysis and prediction are of...

Author: JackGre Date: 10/29/2006

Ad Hoc and Systematic Reuse

In the software factories book, we explain that systematic reuse is effective, but ad hoc reuse is...

Author: JackGre Date: 10/17/2006

Some Inaccurate Statements About Software Factories

The CEO of 6th Sense Analytics recently published an article containing some inaccurate statements...

Author: JackGre Date: 07/24/2006

Architecture Interview and Podcasts

Here’s an update about Software Factories on ARCast, the podcast series on the Architecture Resource...

Author: JackGre Date: 01/22/2006

RE: VSTS 2005, DSL, and Software Architecture

This is a response to a blog posting by Tad Anderson, and the pointer to it on the MSDN Architecture...

Author: JackGre Date: 01/06/2006

Moving to Software Factories

Here’s an excerpt from an article that Keith and I wrote some time ago. Total global demand for...

Author: JackGre Date: 12/09/2005

Software Factories Applied

Keith Short, Mauro Regio and I have agreed to write a new book called Software Factories Applied....

Author: JackGre Date: 12/09/2005

OOPSLA 2005 Recap

Keith Short has already written a post that provides an overview our activities at OOPSLA 2005. Here...

Author: JackGre Date: 12/08/2005

Putting The Cart Where It Belongs

In this posting, I continue addressing issues in the recent blog posting by Grady Booch. As I noted...

Author: JackGre Date: 01/03/2005

Disclaimer

The information in this weblog is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. This...

Author: JackGre Date: 12/21/2004

Microsoft and Domain Specific Languages, Reprise

Two weeks ago, Grady Booch posted a blog entry titled “Microsoft and Domain Specific Languages”. The...

Author: JackGre Date: 12/20/2004