Applied SOA: Part 7–System Consistency

This is part of a series of blog post about Applied SOA. The past blog entries are:

• Introduction
• SOA Basics
• Service Discovery Process
• Service Taxonomy
• Interoperability
• Service Composition

In this article, I’ll cover system consistency.  In every distributed solution, a major...

Applied SOA: Part 6–Service Composition

This is part of a series of blog post about Applied SOA. The past blog entries are:

• Introduction
• SOA Basics
• Service Discovery Process
• Service Taxonomy
• Interoperability

In this article, I’ll quickly cover service composition.

Service Composition is often stated as a goal of SOA.  I...

Integration in the Cloud

I ran across a series of good blog posts I wanted to share with you, dear readers.

From Richard Seroter, the series is about integration patterns in the cloud, looking at cloud-to-cloud & cloud-to-on-premise scenarios.

Richard looks at three main patterns:

• Shared Database
• Remote Procedure Invocation
• Asynchronous Messaging

For each...

Expression Trees Blog Series

I’ve wrote a blog series around expression trees in .NET 4.0:

• Basics
• Fetching Properties
• Setting Properties
• Simple mapping inversion

Departmental Application Migration to Azure Blog Series

Back in summer 2010 I did a proof of concept around Windows Azure & ADFS.  The challenge was:

How can we deploy a departmental application in the cloud and have employees connecting on it using their corporate account?

Basically, how to project a corporate account in the cloud?

This was before Azure AppFabric Access Control.  The solution had...