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August 2006 - Posts

David Chappell on the Reality of reuse in SOA

David has an excellent writeup - please go take a read. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 30, 2006 8:30 AM by jdevados | 0 Comments

Metadata, and the next platform battle.

Phile Wainewright has an interesting post on Multi-tenancy and SaaS. Multi-tenancy is the key principle, architecturally speaking - but the foundation, metaphorically speaking, is Metadata. The next big battle from a platform perspective is going to be Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 27, 2006 6:50 PM by jdevados | 0 Comments

SAAS Architecture Center on MSDN ARC

Check out the SaaS Architecture Center on ARC . Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 16, 2006 8:15 PM by jdevados | 0 Comments

SCA vs JEE

David Chappell has an excellent writeup on the real threat to JEE. I couldnt agree more - SCA has and will continue to have more impact on (the demise of) JEE than on the larger industry per se. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 09, 2006 8:38 PM by jdevados | 0 Comments

Software + Services: An Architectural Perspective

We just published an architectural perspective on Software + Services in our ARC center on MSDN. Michael Platt , who leads Web Architecture in my team, is the author. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 09, 2006 6:54 PM by jdevados | 3 Comments

Enterprise-wide-itis (or why top-down doesnt work)

I am not a fan of the enterprise-wide approach. Top-down, mega mandates rarely works in the real-world. I will give you an example - if you were in the industry in the 90s you probably witnessed the hype cycle on data warehouses. Conceptually elegant, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 08, 2006 8:47 PM by jdevados | 1 Comments

Phil Wainewright on the Fool's gold of mashups

Phil Wainewright has an excellent write-up on Google Maps as the fools gold of mashups . I couldnt agree with him more. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 08, 2006 8:42 PM by jdevados | 1 Comments

Michael Platt on The Opportunity for Web 2.0 in the Enterprise

This is a must-read post by Mike - here is a snip below: The most interesting and potentially most profitable use of Web 2.0 techniques in the Enterprise is however in the customer facing areas of organizations and in a few specialist internal business Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 08, 2006 5:57 PM by jdevados | 0 Comments

Dion Hinchcliffe on Pragmatic SOA

Dion Hinchcliffe has written a thought-provoking article on Pragmatic SOA - specifically what he calls the WOA/Client - definitely worth reading. Btw, if you look carefully you will see a picture of our latest Architecture Journal in his write-up. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 08, 2006 5:41 PM by jdevados | 0 Comments

Aligning Business and IT - first book in the Architecture Journal book series

We recently made available the download of our first book in the Architecture Journal book series. You can find the contents online here . Here is the foreword - Foreword to Dynamic Modeling: Aligning Business and IT Businesses are always looking for Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 06, 2006 4:48 PM by jdevados | 3 Comments

Multi-tenant Data Architecture

Gianpaolo Carraro , Fred Chong and Roger Wolter recently published this work in our ARC center on MSDN. I highly recommend this for their views on the continuum between shared and isolated data. Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 06, 2006 9:43 AM by jdevados | 0 Comments

A Better Approach to Enterprise Architecture

Many organizations have invested and continue to invest in attempting to create 'Enterprise Architectures' , only to get limited, or even negative, value from the effort. Multi-million dollar failures are common across both the public and the private Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 03, 2006 10:45 AM by jdevados | 0 Comments

SaaS Architecture

Approximately six months back we made a strategic decision to invest on creating architecture guidance for the SaaS space. This work is being led by Gianpaolo Carraro and Fred Chong in my team. In a very short span of time both GP and Fred have done some Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 02, 2006 10:36 PM by jdevados | 1 Comments

Big SOA vs Little SO

Erik Johnson suggested that I make the distinction between big SOA and little SOA. I think this is a very good way to distinguish the big-bang, 'mega' approaches - afflicted by what I call the build-it-and-they-will-come syndrome - which suffer from too Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 02, 2006 10:05 PM by jdevados | 2 Comments

The New Integration Problem

A topic I had been meaning to post for a while now - but here is how I see it: The 'Old' integration problem is about connecting systems - we had monolithic applications, that were siloed, trapped in their fiefdoms - and we in IT used duct-tape and glue, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 02, 2006 12:40 PM by jdevados | 0 Comments

An Examination of the Impact of Service Orientation on Data

Continuing on the theme of data - I want to point you at what I believe is the bible wrt dealing with data in loosely-coupled, service-oriented systems - Pat Hellands's paper on Data on the outside vs. Data on the inside in the MSDN ARC center. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 02, 2006 12:28 PM by jdevados | 0 Comments

The Future of Software Architecture

Patrick Meader, Editor in Chief of Visual Studio Magazine and I sat down to talk about where architecture is going - you can find the interview contents here Your mileage may vary - but at least you have my perspective fwiw. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 02, 2006 12:23 PM by jdevados | 0 Comments

Readings in Service Orientation - first in a series of books on SO

We recently published a book on SO - the links to the MSDN ARC center are: http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/RdSrvOrt.asp http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4469946F-2723-47A2-9F54-6520DDAE3260&displaylang=en Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 02, 2006 12:12 PM by jdevados | 0 Comments
 
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