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...

Applied SOA: Part 5 – Interoperability

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

In this article, I’ll cover the Interoperability.  SOA aims is to expose capabilities through services in order...

Applied SOA: Part 4 – Service Taxonomy

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

• Introduction
• SOA Basics
• Service Discovery Process

In this article, I’ll cover the Service Taxonomy.  On an SOA project, we’re going to have services.  How should we classify...

Applied SOA: Part 3 – Service Discovery Process

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

• Introduction
• SOA Basics

In this article, I’ll cover the Service Discovery Process.  You’re working on an SOA project.  There’s going to be services.  What are those services?

That sounds...

Applied SOA: Part 2 – SOA Basics

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

• Introduction

In this article, I’ll cover the basics of SOA.

The hardest question for an Architect to answer briefly is ‘what is architecture’.  Probably the second hardest question is ‘what is SOA’?  In both cases, if you receive a...