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I had a front row seat at Microsoft to watch the first two application model transitions. Early mainframe and minicomputer systems were monolithic, with data storage, application code, and terminal ...

When the Agile Manifesto came out in 2001, it stated that one of the 12 principles of agile software is that “the best architectures, requirements and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.” At ...

Here's a paragraph from a review I wrote, years ago, of a multi-million dollar health care information engineering effort that had produced the usual foot thick pile of "architecture" documents - and ...

Cloud providers shifted focus from infrastructure services to application-first services consumed directly by developers giving rise to a new application architecture. This architecture lets ...