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August 2007 - Posts

Joe McKendrick - Microsoft: when it comes to SOA, ‘just do it’

Joe's column is one I have been following religiously for a while - a must read if you at are interested in SOA. His write-up on how we think about SOA really nails the core of our philosophy. Just do it! Read More...
Posted Monday, August 13, 2007 8:07 AM by jdevados | 2 Comments

Discovery cough, cough

well, I am out today with a virus and am coughing my way to the doctor - but that is a different story. We talk about 'discovery' in SOA, cough, cough. I have been working with customers on SOA for over 7 years now - and I must confess that I haven't Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 08, 2007 2:27 PM by jdevados | 0 Comments

Big BPM vs Little BPM

Following up on my post from last year http://blogs.msdn.com/jdevados/archive/2006/08/02/687269.aspx - I think there is a similar distiction that we can make for BPM. Alex Moulas nails it in his column http://www.bpm.com/FeatureRO.asp - "A large, progressive Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 08, 2007 2:05 PM by jdevados | 2 Comments

Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server

http://www.codeplex.com/TFSGuide - a must read. Read More...
Posted Monday, August 06, 2007 6:08 PM by jdevados | 0 Comments

UnwantedModelingLanguage

I was in a discussion with a customer this morning - and the topic of UML came up. I think Martin Fowler nailed it with this masterful post from a couple of years back. Read More...
Posted Monday, August 06, 2007 6:05 PM by jdevados | 0 Comments

The State of BPM

http://www.bpm.com/BriefingRO.asp?BriefingId=31 is an excellent commentary on the state of the BPM space. Read More...
Posted Friday, August 03, 2007 12:45 PM by jdevados | 0 Comments

Conservation of Dependency - or the fallacy of [tool | language | ...] independence

recently, I was in an email thread where we had someone ask about dependency on XYZ. I think this is an area, where much like the conservation of energy, you can shift the dependencies around - language, tool, framework, operating system, vendor, systems Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 02, 2007 1:36 PM by jdevados | 1 Comments

big SOA, little SOA - SOA in the Real World

Harry has been asking me when I am going to start blogging again - thanks for pushing me Harry. He talks about my big SOA, little SOA post from a long time back - it seems that the nomenclature has taken on a life of its own now - I saw Joe McKendrick Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 02, 2007 1:21 PM by jdevados | 5 Comments

Bridging Web 2.0 and SOA - beyond SOA as infrastructure

About 18 months we at Microsoft first started presenting our ideas on bridging SOA and Web 2.0 - way ahead of the industry analysts, and other influentials. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1918120,00.asp is an article that Darryl Taft at eWeek wrote Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 02, 2007 12:33 PM by jdevados | 0 Comments

The multi-tenancy brouhaha

Multi-tenancy may be among the best examples of architecture-led marketing in the last few years. Multi-tenancy is a means to an end – re-architecting for multi-tenancy is non-trivial, and the resulting isolation is still incomplete - perhaps the multi-core/virtualization Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 02, 2007 12:19 PM by jdevados | 2 Comments
 
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