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WSDAC#28 – IronPython 2.0 Released

Dilipkrishnan — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 04:28:04 +0000

Stefan Tilkov – Everything Becomes LispAWS Editor – Amazon SQS Resources

High scalability blog -Scaling MySQL on a 256-way T5440 server using Solaris ZFS and Java 1.7

Harry Pierson -IPy RTW FTW!

Todd Hoff – Strategy: Facebook Tweaks to Handle 6 Time as Many Memcached Requests

Werner Schuster – Presentation: Ruby.rewrite(Ruby)

Channel 9 – Learning to build on Azure: One ISV’s Experience

Microsoft - Download the New Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) Threat Modeling v3

Alvin Ashcraft – Design/Development/Methodology links

WSDAC#27 – Martin Fowler on the increasing interest in the database space

Dilipkrishnan — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:17:58 +0000

Via Stefan Tilkov

Thread Pools and Erlang Models
Languages – Funny to see the similarities of Dave’s “closure-based Ruby” proposal and Clojure’s syntax (which fits on two slides). I have a feeling this Lisp thing might be a good candidate for experimenting with programming language concepts

Kevin Seal @Coding the Architecture – Conway’s Law – Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization’s communication structure.

ZapThink – Five Things to Look for When Hiring an Enterprise Architect (Part 2)

Martin Fowler – Database Thaw – The natural question to ask about these products is why they should prevail when the ODBMSs failed. What’s changed in the environment that could thaw the relational grip? There are many hypotheses about why relational has been so dominant – my opinion is that their dominance is due less to their role in data management than their role in integration.

AWS Editor – Mathematica on Amazon EC2Bob McIlree -

Measuring Technical Debt – Martin Fowler recently posted an interesting piece about how one would go about measuring technical debt, and I’ll add a few other items to consider.
Carnival of Enterprise Architecture #13 – December 2, 2008

Eric Gunnerson – Benchmarking, C++, and C# Micro-optimizations

Jack van Hoof – Architectural Principles and Solution Architectures

Jeff Atwood – Asks; Can You Really Rent a Coder?

Matthew Podwysocki

Nicholas Allen -

Nick Malik – Using the PMO to measure the behavior of the customer – Most tools capture basic statistics, and then let the IT group add whatever project stats that they want. Today, I want to examine those additional statistics: what measures should the project management office be tracking?

Patrick Smacchia – Lessons learned from a real-world focus on performance

Phillipe Destoop - Application Architecture Pocket GuidesHigh Scalability Blog –

Breakthrough Web-Tier Solutions with Record-Breaking Performance - With the explosive growth of the Internet, increasing complexity of user requirements, and wide choice of hardware, operating systems, and middleware, IT executives are facing new challenges in their application infrastructures. Rapid expansion of the application tier has resulted in significant cost and complexity, and many organizations are simply running out of datacenter space, power, and cooling.
Scalability Perspectives #3: Marc Andreessen On Internet Platforms

Steve Jones – If you get made redundant – As someone who has been made redundant twice (startups that didn’t) and fired once (saying that a company would go bust in 12 months if it didn’t change its approach, I was wrong…. it took 18 months) and who graduated during the last downturn I thought I’d give some advice to anyone who finds themselves in IT without a job in the next year

Ted Neward – The Myth of Discovery – What is it about the software industry that just collectively refuses to accept that there might be lots of interesting research on topics that aren’t technical yet still something that we can use? Why do we feel so compelled to trumpet our own “innovations” to ourselves, when in fact, they’ve been long-known in dozens of other contexts?

Todd Hoff – Paper: Real-world Concurrency

Vikas Hazrati – Managing Change Requests in Scrum

Podcasts/Videos

Phillipe Destoop – 2 great architect interviews on ARCast.TV

Abel Avram – Interview: Dan Farino About MySpace’s Architecture

Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz – Google developer day presentations

Jon Udell – Carl Hewitt on cloud computing, scalable semantics, and Wikipedia

Channel 9 -

Alvin Ashcraft – Interesting Links on Development and Design methodologies

WSDAC#25 – C# 4.0 features from the PDC

Dilipkrishnan — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:55:21 +0000

Dare Obasanjo - C# is the Next Python: Duck Typing and C# 4.0

Simon Brown – The role of the Software Architect in successful projects

Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz -Architect Soft Skills – PDF version

Billy McCafferty – Refactoring Service Dependencies to Separated Interface – I find that fragile tests are often those that depend on data within a database, which can become out of synch with the assertions in the unit test, and those that depend on external services. I use the term “services” loosely to define anything that represents an external resource; examples include web services (including RESTful services), file repositories, databases, and remote procedure calls.

Brad Abrams – Framework Design Guidelines Video from PDC2008 Talk Posted

Charlie Calvert – New Features in C# 4.0 Paper, plus Feedback and Samples

FransBouma – Designing a language is hard, and M won’t change that on Microsoft’s M modeling language

J.D. Meier

NickMalik -The business value of elegant design

Philipe destoop -

The Progress Guys -Impact of Cloud Computing on Enterprise ArchitectureTim Barcz -Test First or Test Driven, Who Cares?

Todd Biske - Architecture Self Assessments – In my post on a CIO and CTO for the USA, at the very end I called out Jim Kobielus’ idea for an online presidential scorecard. As it turns out, I think this has merits in the world of EA and SOA, as well.

Todd Hoff -

Matthew.Podwysocki - KaizenConf’08 Functional Programming Presentation VideoUdi Dahan – Webcast on Reliability, Availability, and Scalability

Videos from Microsoft PDCs

WSDAC#24 – C# Futures and Oslo

Dilipkrishnan — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 02:00:13 +0000

Martin Fowler on Oslo

Dare Obasanjo – Some Thoughts on OpenID vs. Facebook Connect

Simon Brown – Becoming more architecturally aware – part 2

Bart De Smet – C# 4.0 is here – Must-views and must-reads

EricLippert – The Future of C#, Part Two

J.D. Meier - New Release: patterns & practices App Arch Guide 2.0 Beta 1

Jeff Atwood -

Jon Udell - Pumpkins with Oomph a microformat toolkit from

kcwalina -Framework Design Guidelines Videos

Matthew.Podwysocki – DC ALT.NET 10/2008 Recap – A Look at Kanban Software Development
High Scalability Blog -

Phillipe Destoop – Queuing at the speed of light using open queuing protocol

tim-ewald – On the importance of learning a dynamic language now
Todd Hoff

CTL – a flexible distributed control dispatching framework that enables you to break management processes into reusable control modules and execute them in distributed fashion over the network.
Notify.me Architecture – Synchronicity Kills Notify.me is taking the innovative and risky strategy of using ejabberd, an XMPP based system, as their internal messaging and routing layer.

Channel 9 Videos
Lucian Wischik and Lisa Feigenbaum: What’s new in Visual Basic 10

Alvin Ashcraft -Design/Methodology/Microsoft PDC news

Dew Drop – October 24, 2008
Dew Drop – October 23, 2008
Dew Drop – October 22, 2008

WSDAC#23 – Hadoop primer

Dilipkrishnan — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:40:43 +0000

Dare Obasanjo -

Simon Brown – Becoming more architecturally aware – part 1 [In my Mind the gap essay and Why Software Projects Fail presentation, I talk about how we as developers should be more architecturally aware if we are to bridge the gap between the code and the overall design.]

Ayende Rahien – Making the complex trivial: Rich Domain Querying

Bob McIlree – Watch Your Amount of Technical Debt

Brad Abrams – Framework Design Guidelines 2nd Edition: Order Yours Now!

High Scalability Blog

Greg Duncan- Scrum for Team System 2.2 Released – More Reports, bug fixes, SQL Server 2008 and new Report Slide Show feature

Jeff Atwood – Preventing CSRF and XSRF Attacks

Karl Seguin- Simplicity is key to successful unit testing – Part 2
NickMalik – Non-Functional Requirements: the “All-Other” classification

pdestoop –

Forrester: Architecting In The Zone [About Common Zone patterns, Zone architectures can be created in an unlimited number of ways based on an organization's unique context and needs. Zones can be differentiated by technology, organization, application portfolios, or combinations of all three. ]
Architecture Journal – Issue 17 – Distributed Computing

peterb_2008 –

Progress Software – Has availability outlived it’s usefullness for SLAs? [Probably the most common metric used with Service Level Agreement (SLA) for enterprise applications (and SOA infrastructure) is availability. While my primary interest is in figuring out how to define effective SLAs for distributed, transactional business applications]

Sergio Pereira – Performing Code Katas

Todd Hoff – A High Performance Memory Database for Web Application Caches

Alvin Ashcraft -(Design/Methodology Links)

Channel9 – Anders Hejlsberg and Guy Steele: Concurrency and Language Design

WSDAC#22 – A Fresh Look At Google Gears over at Myspace

Dilipkrishnan — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:30:02 +0000

Niall Kennedy -Better Design Through Code

Stefan Tilkov - Ioke is a strongly typed, extremely dynamic, prototype based object oriented language

Bob McIlree – Carnival of Enterprise Architecture #12 – October 1, 2008

Camp Sean – Interview with Joseph Hill – Mono

High Scalability Blog

J.D. Meier -

JonUdell – Scott Prevost explains Powerset’s hybrid approach to semantic search

Mark Hendrickson – A Fresh Look At Google Gear, a look at MySpace’s implementation of Gears, which has little to do with offline functionality, is a perfect example.

NickMalik

Yogish Pai – Organization Skills assessment and Reference Architecture

Nuno Teixeira@nospam.com -Extreme Transaction Processing, Low Latency and Performance

Matthew Podwysocki – Object Oriented F# – Creating Classes

Steve Jones – We’re all going on an architecture hunt

Steve McConnell – New White Papers

SE-Radio – Episode 113: Building Platforms with Jeff McAffer

Udi Dahan – Unit Testing for Developers and Managers

Alvin Ashcraft (Design and methodology links)