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Subscription to Microsoft Singapore Architecture Newsletter Online
Good news to all Architecture Newsletter readers. The Microsoft Singapore Architecture Newsletter is now up at the Subscription Center for all to subscribe. You can go to your personal Subscription Center and manage your own subscriptions. Choose English (Singapore) as the language and select Microsoft Singapore Architecture Newsletter (Monthly) for subscription. You will then receive the monthly newsletter via email. Subscribe today!
The Architecture Journal 19 - TechEd Special Edition
The latest issue of The Architecture Journal 19 – TechEd Special Edition is now available.
Mapping Applications to the Cloud, by Darryl Chantry
Will all applications run in the Cloud? Should you attempt to port all of your existing applications to the Cloud? Should all your new applications be developed in the Cloud? What is this Cloud thing, anyway? These are a few of the questions that arise whenever you start thinking about using cloud services.
A Language for Software Architecture, by J.D. Meier
Building software applications involves many important decisions. By organizing these decisions as a language and a set of mental models, we can organize and share knowledge more effectively. Rather than a sea of information, we can quickly browse hot spots for relevant solutions.Developing Parallel Programs, by Ranjan Sen, Ph.D.
Parallel programming is becoming the mainstream paradigm in day-to-day information processing. Its aim is to build the fastest programs on parallel computers. This article shows how the methodologies for developing a parallel program can be put into integrated frameworks.
Enterprise Social Computing, by Kendrick Efta
Starting small, certain enterprises reproduced the effects of consumer-focused social computing technologies within the firewall. As success stories are being seen and case studies take shape, organizations can begin to plan social computing investments that involve customers, partners, and external communities in order to harness all that collective intelligence.
A Pragmatic Approach to Describing Solution Architectures, by Mike Walker
Production environments often fail to realize the solution architectures described in the documentation. In this article, we look at how we view, approach, and maintainarchitecture descriptions that will help guide decision making at the implementation stage.
Toward an Enterprise Business Motivation Model, by Nick Malik
This article outlines a new structure that can be used to model a wide array of business motivations in context with the structure and activities of the business. Adopting this structure can support an effort toward greater enterprise architecture maturity.
Forrester: From Agile Development To Agile Engagement
Executive Summary
Agile development practices continue to spread across development functions in technology companies. When technology companies adopt Agile practices in the development organization, these changes have ripple effects on other departments whose work is tied to the development cycle — such as QA, product management, marketing, sales, support, consulting, and business development. As our survey of technology companies shows, Agile can inspire improvements in how technology companies operate, even if they don't pay much attention to the effect on relationships between development teams and the rest of the organization. To reach the full potential of Agile and to avoid the potential pitfalls of these unintended consequences, companies need more conscious, dedicated efforts around the adoption of Agile across product-related functions.
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