Composite Applications: The New Paradigm
Composite applications are moving the power from the developer to the user. See how this shift is com...

Bare-Naked Languages or What Not to Model
Domain-specific languages (DSLs) are useful as stand-alone languages, but not everyone knows when or...

Reliability in Connected Systems
Loosely coupled, asynchronous, service-oriented applications impose unique reliability requirements. Learn ab...

Building Applications on a Workflow Platform
A workflow is important for resolving business problems. Examine a range of applications that dem...

Taking Governance to the Edge
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) gives businesses a new way of getting work done, but SOA brings with it the...

Architecture in the systems world is as vast as the galaxy, and architects who operate in it have unique challenges like no other role that comes to...

It has been several years now since .NET hit the streets and created momentum around Microsoft's vision of connecting people and processes together,...

Welcome to the summer issue of JOURNAL. These last few months have been really exciting for architecture as a topic at Microsoft. The

Welcome to the spring issue of JOURNAL. With this second issue we've gone global. This is a direct result of the tremendous feedback for JOURNAL1 fr...

Welcome to the inaugural issue of JOURNAL! Software architecture is a tough thing—a vast, interesting, and largely unexplored subject area. As an ar...

Platform Computing's Dr. Songnian Zhou (Co-founder and CEO) and Martin Harris (Financial Services Market Director) discussed the evolution and future of Grid in Financial Services.

Dr. Zhou provided an overview of Grid adoption in FS, particularly related to the business cases served and ...

Dave explored the boundary between what is classified as a batch and what is not and shows that it can be blurred for business or technical reasons.

Offline processing is a feature of almost all IT projects of any size. Often there is a natural business reason to group items for processin...