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Business Rules

Nowadays there is a lot of pressure on the middle tier of the three tier stack from both the database and the smart client. If technologies such as Yukon allow all the code to run in the databases is the business tier of logic required? Whilst the actual Read More...
Posted Saturday, July 03, 2004 4:04 PM by Michael Platt | 5 Comments
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Electricity as a Managment tool

Physical phenomenon can not only be used as a valuable architectural training aid but they are also useful for management training, especially handy when trying to free up budgets! I was talking yesterday about designing power supplies for TV monitors Read More...
Posted Friday, June 25, 2004 7:07 AM by Michael Platt | 3 Comments
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Danger as an architectural teaching mechanism

Yesterday I postulated that an engineering training is valuable in architecture because it teaches cross domain skills, and in some cases reinforces these with physical harm or danger; a very effective teaching aid! A good example of this was an experience Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 24, 2004 12:01 PM by Michael Platt | 3 Comments
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Complexity

Thinking again about the writing course I was on the other day we were told that one of the most important things you can do to make writing more understandable is to simplify things. I think that is a good principle in general, I have been to architectural Read More...
Posted Friday, February 20, 2004 9:02 PM by Michael Platt | 3 Comments
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Architectural Infrastructure and Reliability

I really like architecting highly available systems; I think they are the most architecturally demanding. In fact serious performance and scalability issues often result in poor reliability or availability. The standard way to build a highly available Read More...
Posted Monday, February 16, 2004 6:42 AM by Michael Platt | 3 Comments
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Being a Architectural Hero

Architecture is great because it is so easy to look like a hero. I talked about earlier in this blog about looking like a hero with a poorly architected application but there are lots of other ways that bad architectural decisions can make you look like Read More...
Posted Friday, February 13, 2004 4:51 AM by Michael Platt | 2 Comments
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Architectural Skills

So if Architecture is a skill that can be taught then can it be lost? I think it can in a very strange way, not through the passage of time but by a radical change in environment. I came to this conclusion after working with a customer in Spain . This Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 10, 2004 1:59 PM by Michael Platt | 9 Comments
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Architectural thinking

In my last blog I hypothesised that Architectural analysis is slightly different from developer analysis and so needs a subtly different skill set and way of thinking. To demonstrate what I mean let me describe a real life example of an architectural Read More...
Posted Friday, February 06, 2004 8:33 AM by Michael Platt | 16 Comments
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