Design

WSDAC#18 - V8 Chrome and the future of the web

Coding the Architecture Blog -Discussion from the May 2008 user group building a high volume, low latency system in Java

Dare Obasanjo - Fixing the HTTP Polling Problem: Some Thoughts on FriendFeed’s Simple Update Protocol (SUP)

Bob McIlree -Why Always Having a “Plan B” Matters, interesting anecdote

Camp Sean - Interview with Joe Brockmeier - openSUSE Community Manager at Novell

J.D. Meier

• My Favorite Software Books
• patterns & practices App Arch Guide 2.0 Project
• SourcesOfInsight.com is Now Live

Jack van Hoof -Then these criteria may be of any help to you come up with easy design decisions

Jon Udell -Activating the web: One programming language or many? on the V8 javscript VM from Google

Matthew Podwysocki -

• Functional Programming Notables #1
• F# Releases September 2008 CTP!

Nicholas Allen - Composing Compression and Encryption

Surekha Durvasula

• Architecture tenets of High Cohesion and Loose Coupling
• Business Architecture – Process Architecture and Information Architecture!

Raymond Lewallen -An entry into lean

Todd Hoff

• Some Facebook Secrets to Better Operations
• Product: ScaleOut StateServer is Memcached on Steroids

Harry Pierson - Morning Coffee 173 F# language related news and links

WSDAC#17 - 97 Things Every Architect Should Know!

Dare Obasanjo

• How Facebook Keeps Memcached Consistent Across Geo-Distributed Data Centers
• Best Practices for Web Sites Seeking to Prevent Service Degradation due to 3rd Party Widgets

Phil Haack - Streamlined BDD Using SubSpec for xUnit.NET

Jeff Atwood - Deadlocked! On deadlock issues in SQL Server

Jon Udell - Motivating people to write the semantic web: A conversation with David Huynh about Parallax

NickMalik - Traceability, the Solution Model, and Metamodeling

Phillipe Destoop

• Burton Group: Open Source Software - Risks and Rewards
• Businesslink: Pricing your product or service
• Enterprise Architects finally value Infrastructure Architects

Simon Guest - Architecture Journal Issue 16 Released, and Issue 18 Call For Papers

Ted Neward - Rotor v2 book draft available, book on the open sources SLR implementation

Todd Hoff

• Latency is Everywhere and it Costs You Sales - How to Crush it
• A Scalable, Commodity Data Center Network Architecture

Via Stefan Tilkov

• Zero to Production in 15 Minutes
• How To Launch Software
• 97 Things Every Architect Should Know
• Features of Common Lisp

Jason Haley - Interesting Finds: August 25, 2008 - [Rough Cut]

WSOAC#29 - REST Explained

Dare Obasanjo -Explaining REST to Damien Katz

Mike Kavis

• Vlog - Cloud Computing and PaaS
• The future is in the Clouds
• SOA and the Human Side of Change

Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz - Why the Database as a Service is a Bad Idea

Dave Linthicum

• Web 2.0? The APIs/services are here today for SOA
• When Thinking Service Design…

David Bressler

• Supporting SOA Governance
• All Hail the SaaS Revolution!, but make sure you have your measures to determine success/failure before you jump into it.
  

David Chappell -A Short Introduction to Cloud Platforms

jvaughan -

• When the Grid met the Cloud - A modern technology fable
• Nick Mallick on merging the various EA Frameworks

Loraine Lawson - The Pros and Cons of Web-Oriented Architecture Explained

Mary Jo Foley - Piecing together Microsoft’s cloud-computing vision

Steve Vinoski - You need to have to experience, before you can comment on it!

Todd Biske - Governance does not imply Command and Control

Via Stefan Tilkov

• REST Simplicity
• REST, RDF and Qi4j

Via Jason Haley

• Erik Sherman - Cloud Outages: Are Vendors Selling Before They’re Ready?
• pdestoop - SaaS Maturity Model according to Forrester
• Stephen Forte - ADO .NET Data Services: Data in the Cloud
• Shawn Santos - On-Demand/SaaS Reality: The ROI Revival: SaaS Company Takes Value Measurement to the Next Level

Podcasts

• Brenda Michelson - New SOA Consortium Podcast: Layer 7’s Scott Morrison on How to Fail at SOA
• Dave Linthicum - Leveraging Web APIs for SOA

Other Interesting Links

• Sam Gentile - WCF, WS-* and REST in .NET 3.5 SP1
• Shivprasad koirala - SOA Interview questions Part 1

WSDAC#16 - Behind NBC’s Olympics Website

Via Harry Pierson - Monads through pictures

Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz - Evolving Architectures: Architecture Retrospective

Ayende Rahien

• Multi Tenancy - Keep It Simple, REALLY Simple
• DSL Patterns - Multi File DSLs
• DSL Patterns - User Extensible Language

Bob McIlree - Carnival of Enterprise Architecture #11 - August 15, 2008 - Interesting architecture links

Brad Abrams - Framework Design Guidelines 2nd Edition Available today on Rough Cuts

J.D. Meier

• Software Methodologies at a Glance
• 10 Success Patterns for PMs

Matthew Podwysocki

• Aspects of Functional Programming in C# Presentation and Code Redux
• Recursing on Recursion - Continuation Passing

Robert Scoble

• The most important Google Tool for businesses (that you probably have never used)
• Behind NBC’s Olympics Website

Steve Vinoski - You Have to Experience It - on having strong opinions without experience using a particular technology/methodology…

Ted Neward - The Never-Ending Debate of Specialist v. Generalist

Todd Hoff - Strategy: Serve Pre-generated Static Files Instead Of Dynamic Pages for performance

Via Stefan Tilkov - Interesting anecdote on Availability Enlightenment

Hanselminutes Podcast - jQuery with John Resig

WMOC#16 - Continuations, Currying and Recursion

Matthew Podwysocki - Recursing on Recursion - Continuation Passing

Bart De Smet

• The Most Funny Interface Of The Year … IQueryable
• Curry for dummies
• Expression Tree Normalization – How Many Ways To Say “String == String”?

Dominick Baier

• P2P and WCF: Some Troubleshooting Resources
• Zermatt: Using Forms Authentication in a Passive STS

Brad Abrams - Framework Design Guidelines 2nd Edition Available today on Rough Cuts

Greg Duncan - Sync 101 - Samples for the Microsoft Sync Framework

Mary Jo Foley - Piecing together Microsoft’s cloud-computing vision

Omri Gazitt - WCF 101 Screencast

Scott Hanselman - Hidden Gems - Not the same old 3.5 SP1 post

Steve Maine - Cool open-source AtomPub server built on WCF

Vittorio bertocci - Setting up a basic CardSpace RP ASP.NET website… using Zermatt

Props to link blogs
Christopher Steen
Jason Haley
Chris Alcock
Alvin Ashcraft
Arjan Zuidhof

Technorati tags: wcf, soa, architecture, webServices, .net, REST, WCF

WSOAC#28 - Series on Multi-tenant applications

ZapThink - Oracle re-brands BEA WebLogic as its strategic server for SOA

Via Stefan Tilkov -ehcache REST API

Dare Obasanjo

• Managing Large Web Server Farms: Microsoft’s AutoPilot
• Managing Large Web Server Farms: Puppet

Ayende Rahien -

• Series on Multi Tenancy

Brenda Michelson - New SOA Consortium Podcast: Melvin Greer on SOA Hard Problems Spiral Solution Development

Dave Linthicum -

• Can you go from EAI to SOA?
• What will the “cool” Web services look like?

Via Jason Haley

• John Biggs - Cloud Computing Q and A with Dave Girouard, President of Google Enterprise
• Know It All - Control Issues Cloud SaaS

Joe McKendrick - Skilled in SOA, business, and tech: Where do we get such individuals?

Kirk Evans - Talking With William Oellermann About the Managed Services Engine

Loraine Lawson - Semantic Integration Is Emerging Field - Should You Care?

Ashok Kumar - Organizational Issues with SOA

Yogish Pai - Best Practices: Master Data Management

TheServerSide.com - A RESTful Core for Web-like Application Flexibility - Part 2

Technometria podcast - Phil Windley spoke with Rich Polski on Eucalyptus an open source implementation of amazon EC2.

Udi Dahan - Command Query Separation and SOA

Vittorio Bertocci  - The New York Times on passwords, OpenID, Information Cards Foundation & Kim

WSDAC#15 - Art of gathering business requirements

Steve Yegge - Business Requirements are BS! - very interesting read

Dare Obasanjo

• Managing Large Web Server Farms: Microsoft’s AutoPilot
• Managing Large Web Server Farms: Puppet

Ayende Rahien -

• Series on Patterns for Distributed Hash Tables
• Series on Multi Tenancy
  

Bart D’Smet

• C# 3.0 Feature Focus - Link Collection
• VB 9.0 Feature Focus - Link Collection

Dave Linthicum - A good enterprise architect should see blurry

High scalability site

• The Art of Capacity Planning: Scaling Web Resources
• Distributed Computing & Google Infrastructure

Harry Pierson -IronPython Beta 4 Released

Microsoft JobsBlog - Advice from technical leaders

Nick Malik -Merging EA Frameworks

Shivprasad Koirala

• UML Interview Questions Part 1
• Software Architecture Interview Questions Part 3 State Pattern, Stratergy pattern,Visitor pattern, Adapter and fly weight

Software Engineering Radio -Episode 106: Introduction to AOP

Todd Hoff

• Strategy: Drop Memcached, Add More MySQL Servers
• Strategy: Let Google and Yahoo Host Your Ajax Library - For Free

WMOC#15 - Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 RTM!

Dare Obasanjo - Managing Large Web Server Farms: Microsoft’s AutoPilot

Ayende Rahien -

• Series on Patterns for Distributed Hash Tables
• Series on Multi Tenancy

Bart D’Smet

• C# 3.0 Feature Focus - Link Collection
• VB 9.0 Feature Focus - Link Collection

Brad Abrams - New Web Developer Tips and Tricks Blog

Harry Pierson - Including the Batteries in IronPython - On the release of IronPython Beta 4

Kirk Evans - Security Guidance for WCF Available

Nicholas Allen

• Getting Rid of Namespaces in the serialized xml in data and message contracts
  
• Certificate Revocation Cache
  

Sam Gentile -New and Notable 262, 263, 264,

Videos and Podcasts

• Channel 9
  • Building NBCOlympics.com with Silverlight
  • MVC Preview 4 with Phil Haack
  • Phil Hack On ASP.net MVC
  • William Oellermann on the Managed Services Engine
  • Seema Ramchandani: From Brain Science to Silverlight
• Brad Abrams - PodCast: Glenn Block on Prism, Unity, and MEF
• Carl Franklin - .NET Rocks! #367 - Udi Dahan Scales Web Applications!

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Windows news

Julie Lerman - A Big Day for the Entity Framework and ADO.NET Data Services teams

Omri Gazitt - Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 RTM Today!

Mary Jo Foley

• Visual Studio 2008 SP1: Why not VS 2009?
• Microsoft (finally) speaks out on ‘Fiji’
• What’s next for Windows Server
• Microsoft finalizes SQL Server 2008

Nicholas Allen - Orcas SP1 Released

Charlie Calvert

• Released: .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit
• Released: Visual Studio Service Pack 1; .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1
• Axialis IconWorkshop Lite for VS 2008

Greg Duncan - Sync Framework v1 RTM’s (and includes ADO.Net Sync Services v2)

Props to link blogs
Christopher Steen
Jason Haley
Chris Alcock
Alvin Ashcraft
Arjan Zuidhof

Technorati tags: wcf, soa, architecture, webServices, .net, REST, WCF

wsdac#14 - Monads for imperative language programmers

Dare Obasanjo

• Paul Graham, Changing the World and “Built to Flip” Startups
• Avoiding the Second System Effect in Software Development

Simon Brown

• Mind the gap again, on the difference between a technical manager and technical lead
• On why architect experience should guide, not constrain technology solutions

Martin Fowler- Dsl Book Roadmap, more on the DSL boook

Ayende Rahien -Building Domain Specific Languages with Boo: Chapter 9 - Versioning

Sean Campbell - Interview with Gabor Cselle - VP of Engineering at Xobni

Haacked - What Integrated Circuits Say About Testing Your Code

Harry Pierson

• Series on monads, [if you are] coming from the object/imperative world of languages like C# [or java], [and] had a hard time wrapping my head around this concept…
• IPy Post 2.0 Roadmap Clarifications

J.D. Meier -On the Lessons Learned from his mentor

Jeff Atwood -On Our Project, We’re Always 90% Done

Jon Udell - How Microsoft’s External Research Division works with a new breed of e-scientists

Mike Taulty - Silverlight 2 and HTML 5 - Being Online/Offline ( Part 2 )

Todd Hoff - A Bunch of Great Strategies for Using Memcached and MySQL Better Together

Videos and Podcasts

Hanselminutes podcast - Tim Bray on Microblogging and Widefinder

Deepfriedbytes.com (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff) - Episode 7: Talking Domain-Driven Design with David Laribee – Part 2

wmoc#14 - Framework designer tools and Oslo at the PDC

Ayende Rahien - Thinking about Cloud Computing

Brad Abrams - New Tools for Framework Designers Published

Chris Sells - A list of Oslo talks at the PDC

Greg Duncan - WCF/Improving Web Services Security Guide Released

Harry Pierson - Has a series of posts on Monads

J.D. Meier - On Model-Driven Approaches to software development

Keith Brown -Better exception reporting in ASP.NET part 2

Nicholas Allen - On why System Types should not be a part of a services’ Metadata

Sam Gentile -Pluralsight BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Course and Jon’s REST Book, NYC

Scott Hanselman

• The Weekly Source Code 31- Single Instance WinForms and Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll
• Learning WPF with BabySmash - Manually Managing ClickOnce and some more Designer Goodness

Videos and Podcasts
Ron Jacobs - endpoint.tv - SOAP and REST a Perspective

Channel 9 -Service Oriented Modeling with Blair Shaw and Hatay Tuna

Deepfriedbytes.com (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff) -Episode 8: Behind the Scenes at Microsoft.com

Hanselminutes Podcast - Tim Bray on Microblogging and Widefinder

RunAs Radio #69 - RunAs Radio #69 - Brian Randell Educates Us On Virtualization Services for Developers!

Channel9 - Visual Basic Language Design Meeting

Charlie Calvert - Video: New Error Checking Feature in Visual Studio Service Pack 1

Props to link blogs
Christopher Steen
Jason Haley
Chris Alcock
Alvin Ashcraft
Arjan Zuidhof

Technorati tags: wcf, soa, architecture, webServices, .net, REST, WCF