The future embraces EDA

Event driven architectures (EDA) will come in the following years more to the front in distributed applications and their architectures. Some think they are the next step after SOA, others have the idea that the 2 (reference) architectures complements. Eitherway, in todays distributed applications some concepts of EDA are already used, although mostly the defined/used software delivery cycles don’t [...]

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Effectiveness and getting there efficiently

Dan Rawsthorne wrote an interesting post about “Scrum is Effective, not Efficient“. I don’t follow fully so i made some comments. I write it here again because it has some aspects that are related to software architectures and which are important to produce quality. To have the full context of this post it is important [...]

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Microsoft Architecture

For those among us who wants to bring the architect’s mind more explicit into projects, Microsoft published very interesting information about how they see what architecture means in their world and what the architectural aspects will be with/in the cloud:

Patterns & practices: Application Architecture Guide 2.0 (Beta 2 Release)
PDC 2008 Architect Edition

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Event Driven Architecture

Event Driven Architecture is brought into attention in the (latest) Microsoft architecture journal 17 and more specifically in the article: Using Events in Highly Distributed Architectures. David Chou points out that SOA can be nicely extended with the event principle and gives some extra general quality advantages provided in the application when using events (others are described [...]

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