Four laws of robust software systems

Murphy’s Law (“If anything can go wrong, it will”) was born at Edwards Air Force Base in 1949 at North…

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5′ on IT-Architecture: three laws of good software architecture

The issue with architectural decisions is that they effect the whole system and/or you often need to make them early…

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Software architect mistakes

I think that to get up in the morning and brew a good cup of coffee is one of the…

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Being a better enterprise architect

Enterprise architects seem to become more and more involved in “trying out new things” or pushing down technology or implementation…

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Infrastructure, Technical Debt, and Automated Test Framework

I’ve had several conversations in email and with clients recently that have all been about this question: “What do we…

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Transactional event-based NOSQL storage

I am presenting here a simple two steps architectural approach based on stored events as a workaround for the lack…

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Configuration Management in Java EE

Configuration Management has a lot of relevance in Cloud Computing as I tried to argue earlier. Actually, I would boldly…

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When Clouds Clear

When I first heard about Cloud Computing a few year back I was sceptical, not really paying attention to it,…

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How to Do 100K TPS at Less than 1ms Latency

Martin Thompson and Michael Barker talk about building a HPC financial system handling over 100K TPS at less than 1ms…

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