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Project Plan Activities for an Architect

I’m the lead architect on a large CRM project that is about to start the Design phase (or in my RUP world, “Elaboration”), and my PM asked me what architectural tasks belong in her project plan for this phase of work. I don’t always get asked this question...

Published Fri, Mar 12 2010 1:45 PM by Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings

Filed under: General Architecture

SIMPLER Way of Hosting the WCF 4.0 Routing Service in IIS7

A few months back I was screwing around with the WCF Routing Service and trying something besides the “Hello World” demos that always used self-hosted versions of this new .NET 4.0 WCF capability. In my earlier post, I showed how to get the Routing Service...

Published Tue, Mar 9 2010 10:20 PM by Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings

Filed under: .Net, SOA, General Architecture, WCF/WF

StreamInsight Musings

I’ve been spending a fair amount of free time recently looking much deeper into Microsoft StreamInsight which is the complex event processing engine including in SQL Server 2008 R2. I figured that I’d share a few thoughts on it. First off, as expected...

Published Fri, Feb 12 2010 3:13 PM by Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings

Filed under: General Architecture, StreamInsight

Interview Series: Four Questions With … Thiago Almeida

Welcome to the 17th interview in my thrilling and mind-bending series of chats with thought leaders in the “connected technology” space. With the 2010 Microsoft MVP Summit around the corner, I thought it’d be useful to get some perspectives from a virginal...

Published Mon, Feb 1 2010 12:16 PM by Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings

Filed under: BizTalk, General Architecture, Four Questions

Considerations When Retrying Failed Messages in BizTalk or the ESB Toolkit

I was doing some research lately into a publish/subscribe scenario and it made me think of a “gotcha” that folks may not think about when building this type of messaging solution. Specifically, what are the implications of resubmitted a failed transmission...

Published Mon, Jan 18 2010 4:26 PM by Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings

Filed under: BizTalk, SOA, General Architecture

Interview Series: Four Questions With … Michael Stephenson

Happy New Year to you all! This is the 16th interview in my series of chats with thought leaders in the “connected systems” space. This month we have the pleasure of harassing Michael Stephenson who is a BizTalk MVP, active blogger, independent consultant...

Published Sun, Jan 3 2010 11:49 PM by Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings

Filed under: BizTalk, .Net, SOA, General Architecture

Using UML vs. ADL (Arbitrary Diagramming Language)

At my company, we highly encourage our architects and developers to communicate their design models through UML. We have a standard set of diagrams that we regularly use to convey aspects of a given solution, including: Component diagrams for system...

Published Tue, Nov 24 2009 11:56 AM by Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings

Filed under: General Architecture

Interview Series: Four Questions With … Lars Wilhelmsen

Welcome to the 14th edition of my interview series with thought leaders in the “connected technology” space. This month, we are chatting with Lars Wilhelmsen, development lead for his employer, blogger, and Connected Systems MVP. ...

Published Mon, Nov 2 2009 7:30 AM by Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings

Filed under: .Net, SOA, General Architecture, WCF/WF, Four Questions

Tidbits from Amazon.com AWS Cloud Briefing

Yesterday I attended the first of a set of roving sessions from Amazon.com to explain their cloud offering, Amazon Web Services (AWS). I’ve been tinkering with their stuff for a while now, but I was amped to hear a bit more from the horse’s...

Published Fri, Oct 16 2009 11:08 AM by Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings

Filed under: General Architecture, Cloud

SQL Azure Setup Screenshots

Finally got my SQL Azure invite code, and started poking around and figured I’d capture a few screenshots for folks who haven’t gotten in there yet. Once I plugged in my invitation code, I saw a new “project” listed in the console. If I choose to “Manage...

Published Tue, Sep 15 2009 11:18 AM by Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings

Filed under: General Architecture, Cloud

Interview Series: Four Questions With … Jeff Sanders

I continue my monthly chat with a different “connected technology” leader by sitting down with Jeff Sanders. Jeff works for my alma mater, Avanade, as a manager/architect. He’s the co-author of the recently released Pro BAM in BizTalk...

Published Thu, Sep 3 2009 12:53 PM by Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings

Filed under: BizTalk, General Architecture, Four Questions

Microsoft CEP Solution Available for Download

Charles Young points out that Microsoft’s answer for Complex Event Processing is now available for Tech Preview download. I wrote a summary of what I saw of this solution at TechEd, so now I have to dig through the documentation (separate download...

Published Fri, Aug 21 2009 6:04 PM by Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings

Filed under: General Architecture

Review: Pro Business Activity Monitoring in BizTalk Server 2009

I recently finished reading the book Pro Business Activity Monitoring in BizTalk Server 2009 and thought I should write a brief review. To start with, this is a extremely well-written, easy to understand investigation of a topic long overdue for a more...

Published Tue, Aug 11 2009 5:31 PM by Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings

Filed under: BizTalk, General Architecture

ESB Toolkit: Executing Multiple Maps In Sequence

There are a few capabilities advertised in the Microsoft ESB Toolkit for BizTalk Server that I have yet to try out. One thing that seemed possible, although I hadn’t seen demonstrated, was the ability to sequentially call a set of BizTalk...

Published Mon, Jun 29 2009 7:31 AM by Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings

Filed under: BizTalk, General Architecture

Can Software Architecture Attributes Also Be Applied to Business Processes?

I’m in San Diego attending the Drug Information Association conference with the goal of getting smarter in the functional areas that make up a bio-pharma company. I’m here with two exceptional architecture colleagues which means that...

Published Mon, Jun 22 2009 10:31 PM by Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings

Filed under: General Architecture

Books I’ve Recently Finished Reading

Other obligations have quieted down over the past two months and I’ve been able to get back to some voracious reading. I thought I’d point out a few of the books that I’ve recently knocked out, and let you know what I think of...

Published Fri, Jun 19 2009 8:50 AM by Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings

Filed under: SOA, General Architecture

Interview Series: Four Questions With … Charles Young

This month’s chat in my ongoing series of discussions with “connected systems” thought leaders is with Charles Young. Charles is a steady blogger, Microsoft MVP, consultant for Solidsoft Ltd, and all-around exceptional technologist...

Published Mon, Jun 1 2009 10:15 AM by Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings

Filed under: BizTalk, General Architecture, Four Questions

Delivering and Surviving a Project’s Architecture Peer Review

Architecture reviews at my company are brutal. Not brutal in a bad way, per se, but in the sense that if you are not completely prepared and organized, you’ll leave with a slight limp and self doubt that you know anything about anything at...

Published Fri, May 29 2009 11:13 AM by Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings

Filed under: General Architecture

Building a RESTful Cloud Service Using .NET Services

On of the many actions items I took away from last week’s TechEd was to spend some time with the latest release of the .NET Services portion of the Azure platform from Microsoft. I saw Aaron Skonnard demonstrate an example of a RESTful, anonymous...

Published Mon, May 18 2009 9:07 AM by Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings

Filed under: SOA, General Architecture, .NET Services

TechEd 2009: Day 2 Session Notes (CEP First Look!)

Missed the first session since Los Angeles traffic is comical and I thought “side streets” was a better strategy than sitting still on the freeway. I was wrong. Attended a few sessions today, with the highlight for me being the new complex...

Published Tue, May 12 2009 5:54 PM by Richard Seroter's Architecture Musings

Filed under: BizTalk, .Net, General Architecture

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Interview Series: Four Questions With … Thiago Almeida

Considerations When Retrying Failed Messages in BizTalk or the ESB Toolkit

Interview Series: Four Questions With … Michael Stephenson

Using UML vs. ADL (Arbitrary Diagramming Language)

Interview Series: Four Questions With … Lars Wilhelmsen

Tidbits from Amazon.com AWS Cloud Briefing

SQL Azure Setup Screenshots

Interview Series: Four Questions With … Jeff Sanders

Microsoft CEP Solution Available for Download

Review: Pro Business Activity Monitoring in BizTalk Server 2009

ESB Toolkit: Executing Multiple Maps In Sequence

Can Software Architecture Attributes Also Be Applied to Business Processes?

Books I’ve Recently Finished Reading

Interview Series: Four Questions With … Charles Young

Delivering and Surviving a Project’s Architecture Peer Review

Building a RESTful Cloud Service Using .NET Services

TechEd 2009: Day 2 Session Notes (CEP First Look!)