This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series Architecture Viewpoints and perspectivesIt is one of software’s little ironies that most architects would fervently wish to see their software run forever and yet fail to foresee how the system would be maintained after it goes LIVE. This is where the operational viewpoint shines. This view point [...]

Legend has it that Bill Gates was the first self proclaimed software architect. Then the fad caught on and the rest is history. Everyone wants to now be part of this selective fraternity. So much so that it is hard to fling a brick in an IT unit without inflicting material harm to at least [...]

Stevey’s Rant has been making the blogging rounds recently. Everyone and their aged and ailing mothers are talking about it including yours truly of course – not my mom though – with this post.  I like the rant of course along with the multitude. Who can resist reading contemptuous digs on Jeff Bezos or for [...]

I recently spoke at a Java conference in Bangalore where we discussed Java and E-commerce. This is becoming important with the advent of major e-commerce re-platforming efforts in some significantly large organizations. I am enclosing the deck that I had used in the meeting here. Ecommerce & Java Take a look!

One of the earliest uses of XML was for the purpose of storing configuration. It was soon realized that XML constructs are more amenable for specifying nested configurations rather than properties or INI files that were hitherto used for the same purpose. Since I am a confessed frame-workaholic (a term I just coined to denote [...]

Event Driven Architecture (EDA) is a paradigm that I became familiar with when I was coding the earliest GUI components. The user interaction with a GUI application is modeled as a series of events that the application responds to.  There is an “infinite loop” of events which can potentially be engendered by user interactions with [...]

As I think back about all the failed projects that I had seen, I recognize one unifying feature about them. They all took too long to ramp up! I am not saying that they did not spend enough time on design or architecture. On the other hand, many of these failed projects spent an inordinate [...]

I was doing an estimation review recently. At first blush, I am instinctively uncomfortable about anything that requires a high degree of predictability in software development since that is going to be violated if you are ever intending to produce software that could be deemed useful by the ultimate consumers! It is exactly like doing the interiors of [...]

This entry is part 1 of 9 in the series optimizationIf we elevate ourselves enough to sit on a figurative perch in the programming world and look down at the applications that are being developed, we realize that Inversion of Control (IoC) containers have most definitely come here to stay. You see more people than [...]

I know I haven’t been posting too much and that has been breaking a few hearts. So to heal the breach and reward the faithful for waiting this long, I have published a new open source framework called STM which is a representation of the State Transition Machine. Please check it out in the following [...]