The Evolution & Future of Grid in Financial Services
Category: Architecture > Patterns      Posted: 04 Feb 09

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 ...

Patterns of and Solutions to Challenges of Offline and Batch Processing
Category: Architecture > Patterns      Posted: 04 Feb 09

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...

Architectural implications of REST-ful design
Category: Architecture > Patterns      Posted: 04 Feb 09

The growing awareness of REST is putting the "Web" back into Web-Services. About time too, the Web is the most successful application ever. Why? Because it displays amazing economic properties. The cost of change is much smaller than the value added. It encourages solving problems by keeping it simpl...

Michael Stal on Architecture Refactoring
Category: Architecture > Patterns      Posted: 05 Jun 08

In this interview from OOPSLA 2007, Michael Stal talks about architecture refactoring. He describes what architecture refactoring is, its relationship ...