September 11, 2012
Shouldn't every lead Enterprise Architect be a Chief Architecture Officer? Without that executive authority, their EA policies are merely suggestions.
September 6, 2012
With appropriate planning, management, and presentation a Proof-of-Concept can become a key part of a successful Enterprise Architecture
February 21, 2012
The perceived chasm between enterprise architecture and Agile Software Development can be bridged by leveraging the processes common to both.
February 14, 2012
Incorporate Agile methods into your enterprise architecture process. The result will be an emergent architecture strategy that makes your projects adaptable and your developers happier.
January 23, 2012
Multi-tenancy can deliver considerable scalability and cost benefits to any SaaS application. But implementing a multi-tenant architecture is a serious undertaking.
January 11, 2012
Go step by step through the tiers of a typical software stack, exploring the options for implementing multi-tenancy on each.
January 9, 2012
A well-implemented multi-tenant architecture is at the heart of every successful cloud service.
October 11, 2011
Unstructured, "accidental" application architecture creates long-term inefficiency and design barriers. Enterprise architecture with shared services can alleviate the problem.
July 26, 2011
ArchiMate can help simplify the various enterprise domain models, illustrate where they overlap and facilitate understanding between stakeholders and domain experts.
June 16, 2011
Here are some ways that an enterprise architecture gets lost on the way to maturity and some alternate paths to get back on track.
April 18, 2011
The development team for the continuous integration platform FaZend.com installed, configured, and maintained leading continuous integration tools, including Hudson and CruiseControl. Find out what they learned about working with the top CI tools.
April 8, 2011
With the Internet now a ubiquitous platform, developers may need to drop the word "Web" from their vocabularies and embrace native code.
March 23, 2011
Amazon's pricing scheme for the EC2 cloud platform makes it accessible to every level of developer.
March 22, 2011
Choosing a cloud platform, or building an application that you plan to deploy in the cloud? Here are a few best practices to make the process easier.
March 16, 2011
Development teams must think hard about these four aspects of cloud computing before they start the development process.
March 14, 2011
Users will expect your private and hybrid clouds to deliver the kinds of infrastructure services that big public cloud players do. Here is how to build a cloud infrastructure that can do just that.
February 4, 2011
Amazon Web Services is the umbrella of services provided by the company, under which Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 are found.
February 2, 2011
Cloud storage services are gaining popularity and momentum as they promise to protect you for a reasonable price.
January 31, 2011
DevOps is an umbrella term for processes, methods, systems and tools for improved communication and collaboration between development, QA and operations teams.
January 26, 2011
Using a preplanned method for handling bugs helps teams with a smooth delivery and keeps them out of reactionary mode.
January 24, 2011
If you've embraced cloud storage but need a tool to bring that storage to the desktop, check this solution.
January 14, 2011
The idea is that by automating the build, deployment, and testing process, delivery teams can release software updates in a matter of hours.
January 12, 2011
The method works because it contends with the challenges of delivering on a software development project while creating a motivating work environment.
January 5, 2011
Take advantage of Silverlight 4 and Windows Communication Foundation 4 to bind data to Silverlight Data Controls.
January 3, 2011
Other technologies affecting the industry include virtualization and solid-state disks.
December 28, 2010
In the case of moving apps to the cloud, security concerns are still paramount.
December 27, 2010
Many of these services are available for free but vary in usability and simplicity.
December 16, 2010
Bringing a product into the marketplace is just the first step on a long and arduous journey to make the product liked, respected, actually used by people on a consistent basis.
December 15, 2010
SSI makes perfect sense for some, but this greatness comes at a great cost: years of work.
December 14, 2010
Rackspace recently began offering its customers a hybrid hosting solution that encompasses what they call Hybrid Computing.
December 13, 2010
To capitalize on enterprises' appetite for greater cloud flexibility, vendor CloudSwtich created CloudSwitch Enterprise 2.0, a downloadable appliance that installs easily into VMware and Xen environments.
December 7, 2010
Developers are using APIs more than ever. Discover a few tips and benefits of APIs learned at the conference.
December 7, 2010
Java Community Process final vote approves Java 7 and 8 specs, though there are strong concerns from multiple vendors about licensing. Is a Java fork now in sight?
December 2, 2010
Databases in a cloud environment are inherently different from traditional installations in a datacenter or even in a familiar hosted environment.
November 30, 2010
Key issues to consider are: choosing which platform to use, bandwidth, standards, security concerns about data, and the integrity of data.
November 24, 2010
Crunching data or having access to vast amounts of data is crucial for many applications.
November 22, 2010
Creating exceptional user stories is not the only key to help your team become a high performance agile team, but it is a piece to the puzzle.
November 18, 2010
These questions will help us to better focus our content toward those people coming to the DevX site.
November 18, 2010
This approach of mixing best practices, techniques and tools from Scrum and Smart has proven to be very successful in a variety of projects and project types.
November 15, 2010
By splitting compound roles your models will provide a clearer and more representative picture of who does what and when.
November 10, 2010
Alex Genadinik applied his development suggestions on a new group hiking site he launched and can now share his findings.
November 4, 2010
The decision on how an infrastructure is setup and configured must be decided collectively between the two parties.
November 2, 2010
Continuous Integration is a practice that development managers, project managers and others in agile teams should insist their teams follow.
October 20, 2010
Code review is a tool to help teams increase their software engineering maturity, and in the end this means delivering higher value to customers.
October 18, 2010
The chip giant is rumored to be in the process of creating a tool for developers to port Apple's iOS-based applications to other OS-based devices.
October 14, 2010
Simplifying is a hot topic, but Robert Maksimchuk submits that we are already simplifying the UML in our respective projects through self-selection.
October 13, 2010
After dealing with back-end databases, sever code and various frameworks, it's difficult (but not impossible) to find the time to make it all look nice and pretty.
October 12, 2010
Relying solely on process in the manufacturing of the ideas that are core to the practice of software development is not enough.
October 5, 2010
This guide is intended to help software development teams start using Kanban within their organization.
September 27, 2010
Major new release of open source Ruby implementation adds new performance and memory utilization capabilities.
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