Posts Tagged ‘systems architecture’

Announcing BizTalk Server R3

For all those out there still working in the Microsoft integration space, keep your eyes open for the next iteration of BizTalk Server 2006. I’ve just picked this up from Andy James’ Solidsoft blog: Today, Steve Martin announced a few details about the next version of BizTalk that will be...

Pragmatic Architecture: Layering

Ted Neward has a brilliant article on MSDN entitled: Pragmatic Architecture: Layering. In it he reexamines the whole concept of splitting an application up into tiers, particularly looking at the why and more importantly when; as is WHEN is it applicable to take the hit of the additional rise in...

Event-Driven Architectures

Gregor Hohpe posts a great article based on the talk he gave at TechEd this year. His talk was about event-driven architectures, with a particular focus on Composability, the ability to build new things from existing pieces. This is a great concept, especially in the view of development and maintenance...

What is a Service Orinted Architecture?

Came across a great article that explains quite succinctly what a Service-Oriented Architecture is all about. Read...

Some Visio goodness

Found a great Visio-related posting on Darren Norton‘s blog … I’ve been doing a lot of Visio work lately, working on presentations for my employer. Here is a list of useful Visio stencils, downloads, and even a blog: Blogging on Visio – from the lead Visio Program Manager. Great Shapes...

TechEd 2005 – Connected Systems Infrastructure

Ohhh … TechEd 2005 has a Connected Systems Infrastructure track. This is defined as: Connected Systems are becoming pervasive as a result of current economic and technological drivers for companies to be more agile, drive down costs, and integrate heterogeneous, globally dispersed systems. New applications no longer live in single...

The principles of SOA

I came across an interesting article today, that defines what it calls “The principles of SOA” rather elegantly: The business drives the services, and the services drive the technology. Business agility is a fundamental business requirement. A successful SOA is always in flux. Read more about it here I love...

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