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There is a new architecture podcast out from IEEE that will be hosted by Grady Booch. If you do not know Grady he is recognized internationally as an industry luminary for his innovative work on software architecture, software engineering, and modeling.
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I ran across an interesting post on J.D. Meier's Blog that describes the Patterns & Practices project called the Application Architecture Guide Project 2.0 . Hosted on CodePlex.com this project aims to take guidance from Microsoft and marry it with
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Recently, I have had discussions with folks at Microsoft about Architecture Styles. This term has been used in the IT industry for a very long time. I think the earliest reference was in the early 80's. But that is neither here, nor there in my opinion.
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Infoworld just published a great piece called Cloud computing may draw government action . The article goes into data privacy concerns with the cloud. They state that Cloud computing will soon become an area of hot debate in Washington, D.C., with policy
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Douglas Purdy puts it best in his What is Oslo? post a few days ago, Oslo is a tool, a language and a repository. You are still probably scratching your head thinking, well what is it really? Well, the guys over in the connected systems division isn't
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The Microsoft Consulting Services Infrastructure Architects have setup a new blog that walks through and announces upcoming web casts from their team. You can find the site at: http://blogs.technet.com/mcstalks/ In there words the site is set out to accomplish:
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For those interested, the 2008 Microsoft Strategic Architect Forum (SAF) will happen again this year. Each year my team organizes this conference so that top architects from around the world can get together to collaborate on key challenges in the industry.
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In a recent article on Network World they highlight security issues with the cloud. Jon Brodkin extracts his thoughts from a Gartner report titled “ Assessing the Security Risks of Cloud Computing .” If you had seen my last post on Challenges
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Many have asked for source code to the Loan Origination Reference Architecture and now it's on CodePlex. Source Code http://www.codeplex.com/los/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=15173 Home Page http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/orlos
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Over the past month there has been a flurry of interest in what is referred to as the Enterprise Architecture Toolkit (EATK). The last mention of the EATK was in my post recapping the Japan Strategic Architecture Forum I mentioned the launch of the EATK.
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I really enjoyed reading the " 10 Reasons Enterprises Aren’t Ready to Trust the Cloud " post from Stacey Higginbotham . She highlights some very important points in here analysis. She outlines the following challenges with the cloud: 1.
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If you haven't heard or been to the Microsoft Architect Insight Conference your missing out. This is a great conference for architects. Whether your Microsoft specific or not. Topics range from process, tooling, business and IT strategy.
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At TechEd this year, Simon Guest, Senior Director of the Platform Architecture team was interviewed about what our team does, why it does it, who our customer is and how we deliver to the architecture community. If you are interested in learning more
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I haven't talked about these much but plan on it in the near future. I think there are some real good nuggets of guidance that can be learned from S+S Blueprints and Software Factories. Keep an eye out for some posts about how these relate to the architecture
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Enterprise Library is a collection of application blocks intended for use by developers who build complex, enterprise-level applications. Enterprise Library is used when building applications that are typically to be deployed widely and to interoperate
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