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It is nice to point out, on occasion, when two different leaders in the architecture community are saying things that, when added together, become greater than the sum of their parts. First off, my friend and colleague Gabriel Morgan recently described
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A couple of years ago, Phillippe Krutchen 'reinterpreted' the Tao Te Ching of Lao-Tsu for Software Architects ( link ). I saw it again recently and I have some new appreciation for the things I saw there. I most enjoyed this bit. (Note that the number
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Recently, Mike Walker posted a blog entry on the difference between Enterprise Architect and Solution Architect (sometimes called Application Architect). I think this is an interesting space, because I believe that some folks have a mistaken perception
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One thing we sometimes forget to do... make time to make relationships. It is good when we do it right. Large organizations are curious things. Some folks like to think of a company as something akin to an organism, with a heart and lungs and nervous
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I started an interesting thread when I weighed in on the use of IoC and the Dependency Injection pattern a few days back. Seems I wasn't sufficiently supportive of the concept of lightweight containers to please some of my readers. Should we, the blog
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Recently, I caught wind of a discussion about use or overuse of Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection. One small team was quite religious about using it, while another was, let's say, a bit more circumspect. It made me think about where I would
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Special thanks to 'Jerman of the Board' for this blog post on a good book, "The Paradox of Choice." Just from the links on this page, I intend to go out and get the book right away. Quote: "The basic premise of the book is that TOO much choice leads to
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My favorite posession in high school was my drafting board. Yep... I was geek, even then. I was going to be the next Frank Lloyd Wright (or at least, I wanted to die trying). I fell in love with Architecture in a high-school drafting class and was hooked.
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I've been having a really fun discussion these past few days with some folks on how (or what) to sell to the business when you want to build apps using SOA. Mike Kavis believes that there are three camps: (1) sell the technology, (2) sell the solution
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Integration is an odd thing. You have to make many people agree on common things in order for it to work. If you look at the things that people agree upon, you can see where you are in data integration, and where you still have to go. I'd like to lay
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There is an interesting logic argument in the SOA community that says: IT has lost the trust of the business, and in order to build SOA solutions, we need to discuss the value of SOA to get it back. Loraine Lawson eloquently stated the case in a recent
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I wander the blogosphere on occasion looking for new articles on "selling SOA to executives" and I get the same-old story. Tell them about the benefits of composing applications. Then pray that they care. Personally, I think that is bunk. Briefly, before
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I had a good question from an architect the other day. He was looking at one of my models, where I had created an abstraction and then modeled some of the concrete entities under it. He didn't believe that the abstraction was necessary. He mentioned that
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If we want to decouple a SOA system, we must get away from the notion of the remote procedure call. In other words, our services need to have as few "command" messages as we can get away with. This is a design philosophy but it is easier said than done.
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How can we leverage the power, and draw, of massive multiplayer online game experiences to build a shared vision of architecture for an enterprise? I'm not in to multiplayer online games. I have a lot on my mind between being a dad and being supportive
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