Gartner is advocating a new approach to EA. Their new approach? Stop focusing on centralized control and move to a negotiated, decentralized approach.
In other words, Gartner feels that top-down, central architecture creation and enforcement isn’t sustainable. They want EA to switch to a cross-cutting concern, integrating organic architectures and approaches into a coherent [...]
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Gartner Advocates New Approach to EA
September 11th, 2009 · View Comments · Architecture
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Software engineering is dead
August 7th, 2009 · View Comments · Architecture
I read a while back on Jeff Atwood’s blog about a paper written by Tom DeMarco. Tom was one of the forces behind the development of structured analysis. Many years after bringing structure and metrics to software development, Tom DeMarco, one of the big proponents of Software Engineering, has stated that he no longer believes [...]
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Growing from the simple to the complex
August 5th, 2009 · View Comments · Architecture, Consulting
Implementing a complex solution from scratch is infinitely more difficult then creating a complex solution in layers. There are several useful principles to keep in mind when designing and building complex systems.
The first is the KISS principle – Keep It Simple, Stupid. The KISS principle holds that the simple solution is usually the best solution. [...]
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Enterprise Architecture in a Web 2.0 World
April 11th, 2009 · View Comments · Architecture, Web
There’s something very curious to me. While standard thinking is that you need to use “enterprise quality” languages to scale to large loads, the reality is that big Web 2.0 sites scale much, much larger then most enterprise apps and use scripting languages to do it.
So does that mean that “enterprise quality” is a bunch [...]
Tags:Architecture·MySQL·PHP·Python·Ruby·SOAP·Web·Web 2.0·XML
