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

OpenLaszlo architect and ultimate insider Adam Wolff has recorded a screencast version of his wonderful OpenLaszlo programming tutorial, available belo...

The "Coding the Architecture" User Group is community for hands-on, pragmatic software architects. Join th is meeting, which will feature discussions on high volume, low latency systems in Java.

The "Coding the Architecture" User Group is community for hands-on, pragmatic software architec...

Agile methods are often told to be the best way to implement a SOA within an organization. However, in real life scenarios there are a lot of diverging and conflicting forces in place. Alberto Brandolini will explain why a pragmatic no-nonsense approach is often the way to get the best from what you ...

Yahoo! JavaScript Architect Douglas Crockford argues that to take the web forward we need to look back — to the days of the great browser wars when inn...