I've got lots of examples of places where Conway's Law has turned a
good idea into a poor implementation. A classic is a data warehouse
where there were...
1 replies - 6941 views - 03/23/10 by Steven Lott in News
I've been reading Neal Ford's series of articles on Evolutionary architecture and emergent design and in the one about 'Investigating architecture and...
1 replies - 3851 views - 03/19/10 by Mark Needham in Articles
Thanks to Google App Engine's work with DataNucleus, the GAE users have enjoyed JPA and JDO support. For its storage system, GAE uses the (NoSQL) Google...
1 replies - 11839 views - 03/17/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
In reflecting on Architecture, I realized that there are some profound
differences between "real" architecture and software architecture.One
of...
15 replies - 8679 views - 03/12/10 by Steven Lott in News
After releasing his latest book covering OSGi & Equinox, I took the opportunity to catch up with Jeff McAffer. In this interview we discuss the basics of...
2 replies - 13719 views - 03/11/10 by James Sugrue in Articles
One source had confirmed that Twitter was working with the NoSQL data store, Cassandra, late last year. Some more details have finally surfaced about this...
0 replies - 15560 views - 03/10/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
Transaction design seems to be really hard for some people. The
transactions they build seem to based on some crazy assumptions. The
problem is that...
1 replies - 5803 views - 03/06/10 by Steven Lott in Articles
Last week at OSGi DevCon, I attended Peter Krien’s Advanced OSGi
tutorial. The tutorial focused on OSGi services, and I had just come
off a rather lengthy...
0 replies - 4727 views - 03/05/10 by Kirk Knoernschild in Articles
A German company, Hello2morrow, recently launched a new version of its tool for bridging the gap between architects and developers. SonarJ allows developers...
0 replies - 17845 views - 03/04/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
This article provides a high level view of the motivations behind the Savara open source project, and the Testable Architecture methodology upon which it is...
0 replies - 9605 views - 03/01/10 by Steve Ross-talbot in Articles
This case study is excerpted from the book, Evaluating Project Decisions: Case Studies in Software Engineering, authored by Carol Hoover, Mel Rosso-Llopart and...
0 replies - 8687 views - 02/26/10 by Lyndsey Clevesy in Articles
Mono Supports MeeGo Apps - Android Support ComingThe open source .NET development environment, MonoDevelop, has just gained the support it needs to develop...
0 replies - 20612 views - 02/24/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
For location-based search, it is very common to search for objects
based on their spatial location. e.g. find all restaurants within 5
miles of my current...
2 replies - 7341 views - 02/19/10 by Ricky Ho in Articles
I’ll be at OSGi DevCon next week, having been given the opportunity to present the keynote session on Tuesday. The conference is co-hosted with JAX London. I...
0 replies - 5302 views - 02/18/10 by Kirk Knoernschild in Articles
Cloud Map/Reduce developed by Huan Liu and Dan Orban offers some good
lessons in how to design applications on top of Cloud environment,
which has a set of...
1 replies - 6003 views - 02/12/10 by Ricky Ho in Articles
