SOA Vision Definition Strategy High level conceptual architectural view of SOA: http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/application/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnea/html/eaappconland.asp SOA in terms of city planning (Metropolis...

I went to see a mainframe customer about rearchitecting their system last week and went through a fairly specific set of stages as part of the process. Thinking about it I realised that I do tend to have a process which I aways use when undertaking an...

Tech Ed this year is being touted as much more architecturally focussed than ever before with a special architect track so I though I would go and have a look at what sessions I would go to at Teched . First of all there are a terrifying number of breakouts...

I am really interested in the whole area of Architectural Training, Certification and Licensing. I believe that we need a strong Architectural profession if we are going to be a viable and credible body of experts and that implies a corpus of knowledge...

Following on from my blog about LADP I am going to go through each stage of the architectural design process with a real life scenario. This article covers stage 1, the business level overview and requirements. So for this particular example engagement...

I'm off to give a presentation on DSI and SDM this afternoon and so have been doing a ton of prep. At the same time there is a lot of discussion inside Microsoft about what architectural guidance that we can give on top of DSL's , SOA and DSI . We have...

Posted a taxonomy for SOA information along with links at http://blogs.msdn.com/michael_platt/articles/116760.aspx

So on to the last day of Ot 2004. This started with a keynote by Joshua bloch on how to design a good api. His premise was that as api’s lasted for a long time you had to do a good job of designing them which is hard to disagree with. He then had...

This article covers stage 2 of the Lightweight Architectural Design Process; the present system and constraints (the as is phase). The IT manager continued on from the business overview with the Sysop (Systems Operator) and Sysprog (System Programmer...

Arvindra has just given me the April copy of the Architects Journal; Journal2. It looks great (although the lime green is rather bold!) with a ton of SOA related materials covering agility, implementations and patterns amongst others. We will be...

I am busy preparing for my webcast about Visual Studio “Whidbey” - Visual Design and Validation of Connected Systems , a snappy title that I copied from the PDC. It’s on Wednesday 07/04/2004 at 15:00 GMT (see https://msevents-eu...

I have added an article with links to all the DSL modelling articles I know of at http://blogs.msdn.com/michael_platt/articles/94569.aspx . Let me know if there is anything I have missed