ITARC 2010

May 23, 2010 at 7:34 PMalex

IT Architect Regional Conference in Minneapolis on November 6-7, 2010 is the one not that far from Chicago, IL to attend. Should be interesting for an Architect to get a sense of the heartbeat of the latest innovations in distributed architectures.

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Windows Azure Guidance

May 21, 2010 at 9:56 AMalex

My posts lately are rather short, but I want to keep 'em informative and would like to move closer to the technology track that I'm working on. Here is the Windows Azure Guidance document, which represents the holystic view on the Microsoft Cloud's vision and the architecture decisions behind the cloud-based applications - http://wag.codeplex.com/releases/view/45438

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Hotmail goes social, interesting

May 19, 2010 at 10:51 PMalex

Without further adeu, Hotmail goes into social world of networking, keeping up with our contacts and sharing information. More on Windows Live site here. Interesting trend which shows that nowadays the systems are more like hybrid connected and information organizing systems.

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Azure Performance and Best Practices

May 19, 2010 at 8:52 AMalex

If you're developing for Microsoft Cloud Services, this might be of interest for the evaluation of the performance and Best Practices concerning running applications in the Cloud:

http://azurescope.cloudapp.net/Default.aspx

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Migrating Traditional Business Rules Applications to the Cloud Slides

May 1, 2010 at 10:37 PMalex

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