Architecture

3 years ago I first heard Pat Helland delivering a very interesting talk titled "Metropolis" where he spoke about how most people today are still building custom software like artisans and craftsman who built most things prior to the industrial revolution. This means that software is…

Enterprise Architects have a tough job. They have to do something harder than herding cats and that’s trying to get a large group of developers that range from long time employees to contractors, from mainframe jockeys to C# gurus to do things in a consistent and predictable way. A proven means…

Sometimes you just have to go for it. While others hold back and cower in the safety of the past a few brave souls press ahead and shoot for the stars. Long before .NET 3.0 shipped an intrepid group of explorers at Dollar Thrifty Auto Group decided to build their solution on .NET 3.0 and because…

Imagine you are the chief architect of an enterprise with workers and manufacturing facilities around the globe. Workers are asking for more flexibility, more capability for working when and where they want. You need a mobility strategy that provides these capabilities to the enterprise. What…

A couple of years ago I was chatting with some colleagues and the topic of service design came up. Creating web services is easy but how do you help people to know how to create the right kind of services? The whole thing reminded me of the kind of problems we had 10 years ago when teaching…

A couple of years ago I was chatting with some colleagues and the topic of service design came up. Creating web services is easy but how do you help people to know how to create the right kind of services? The whole thing reminded me of the kind of problems we had 10 years ago when teaching…

Do you remember when having a mobile phone was a big deal? I can still recall the time when I bought my first “Car Phone” as we called it. It came with a big box that you put under the seat and worked only in the car. It was pretty cool. Then later I got a big phone that I carried with me on…

Microsoft Interoperability Story Hear about key problems that the Windows Azure Platform is adressing and it fits into the Microsoft cloud computing initiatives. Learn about the pillars of the Windows Azure Platform, its service lifecycle, and see how they fit with both Microsoft and non-Microsoft…

This is a recording from an MSDN Live Meeting broadcast from the Microsoft Belgium office on May 22, 2012. Abstract The promise of all cloud vendors out there is they can run your applications without changes. While that claim is true, it's better to optimize existing software or design specifically…

Architect Summer Campaign - Introduction into Cloud Power Summer's here and for the most of us this is the time we take that well-deserved rest and stand back a little from the daily grind. It's also a time for some reflection, a time to think about the things that we would like to do during the…