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Microsoft and Domain Specific Languages, Reprise
Two weeks ago, Grady Booch posted a blog entry titled “Microsoft and Domain Specific Languages”. The posting is part of a running debate between Grady, and my colleagues at Microsoft Steve Cook and...
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Putting The Cart Where It Belongs
In this posting, I continue addressing issues in the recent blog posting by Grady Booch. As I noted in my previous posting, the debate up to this point has been about the suitability of the Unified...
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OOPSLA 2005 Recap
Keith Short has already written a post that provides an overview our activities at OOPSLA 2005. Here is a compendium of my activities at the conference. On Sunday, 10/16, I hosted a full day tutorial...
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Software Factories Applied
Keith Short, Mauro Regio and I have agreed to write a new book called Software Factories Applied. Our goal is to write a short book for practitioners that complements the theoretical foundation...
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RE: VSTS 2005, DSL, and Software Architecture
This is a response to a blog posting by Tad Anderson, and the pointer to it on the MSDN Architecture General forum.First, I agree with your observation, Tad, about the lack of support for the Software...
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Architecture Interview and Podcasts
Here’s an update about Software Factories on ARCast, the podcast series on the Architecture Resource Center. Last month, five panelists (counting myself) recorded three shows on model driven...
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Ad Hoc and Systematic Reuse
In the software factories book, we explain that systematic reuse is effective, but ad hoc reuse is not.Ad hoc reuse is the “Field of Dreams” approach… “If we build it, they will come”. Great line for a...
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Performance Analysis and Prediction
Irfan Idrees wrote with the observation that while performance analysis and prediction are of critical importance for software developers, the rigorous approaches prevalent in the marketplace have not...
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Articles on Software Factories
I recently published an article on using software factories in supply chains for Methods and Tools. Also, many people have asked about the article I wrote about factories vs. MDA for the Perspectives...
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How to Use OData for SQL Azure with AppFabric Access Control
[Created – April 16, 2010] [Updated – October 5, 2010 – Revised text and URIs to refer to ACS production, since ACS Labs is now running ACS v2.] Looking for a way to expose data in SQL Azure to web...
View ArticleSilverlight Clients and AppFabric Access Control
As described in my previous post, I’ve just finished building some Silverlight clients and a portal for the new OData service for SQL Azure using AppFabric Access Control (ACS). In the process, I ran...
View ArticleSilverlight Samples for OData Over SQL Azure
I’ve just published a some code samples that show how to build a Silverlight client for the OData Service for SQL Azure, and how to build a service that validates Secure Web Tokens (SWTs) issued by...
View ArticleFabrikamJets Example Updated (Really)
I just discovered that the 2.0 release of the Fabrikam Jets example on code gallery (described in this blog post) contained the original version 1.0 code that worked with OAuth WRAP v0.8, instead of...
View ArticleRemembering Steve by Remembering NeXT
Last week, JJ Dubray asked me to write something about NeXT in Steve’s honor for InfoQ. It’s part of a post about Steve with thoughts from several people, including Eric Schmidt and Tim Berners-Lee. My...
View ArticleBusiness Continuity On Azure
Azure customers want their services to be continuously available to their users, despite component failures, platform degradations and data center outages. In other words, they want business...
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This post describes the basics of business continuity. Business continuity poses both business and technical challenges. In this series, we focus on the technical challenges, which include failure...
View ArticleHigh Availability On The Azure Platform
Currently, both Windows Azure and SQL Azure offer high availability within a single data center. As long as a data center remains operational and accessible from the Internet, services hosted there can...
View ArticleDisaster Recovery
While the Azure platform provides high availability within a single data center, as discussed in the previous post, it currently does not explicitly support or enable disaster recovery or...
View ArticleGeographically Distributed High Availability
This is the last post in the series on business continuity. It briefly describes how the service developer can provide geographically distributed high availability on the Azure platform. The Azure...
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