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...

Tired of web apps written in Ruby being big, slow, and complex? Then try subdividing your problem space by slicing up your app into a set of lightwei...

Java developers have widely adopted test first software development strategies. Unit test frameworks for Java, Web services, Ajax, REST, Service Oriented Architecture, and Flash/Action Script show the diversity of adoption among Java developers. In this session, Frank will take Java developers throug...

There are a number of publications talking about the benefits of a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and an equal number of papers and articles suggesting that the aims of a SOA are a little too theoretical. SOA cannot be implemented, they claim, so they suggest a few workarounds. This session will...

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...