High-Assurance Design
This week, Cliff Berg is doing a promotion of his latest book entitled High-Assurance Design : Architecting Secure and Reliable Enterprise Applications. I'm sure you've encountered this yourself, but...
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Elastic computing
We had an internal technology session last night and I was on a panel where each of us was asked to come up with the IT aspects of an enterprise architecture for a small (100 people) financial...
View ArticleNFRs for system replacements
As software architects, we tend to write about non-functional requirements a lot; particularly about how they should be defined and challenged because of the influence they have. One of the reasons...
View ArticleModifying Open Services
There's been a huge push recently towards service oriented architectures - sharing services within an organisation with benefits such as reuse and making information consistent. Take a simple example...
View ArticleSecurity Concerns for Legacy Systems
Information security is a quality attribute that can’t easily be retrofitted. Concerns such as authorisation, authentication, access and data protection need to be defined early so they can influence...
View ArticleApplication Architecture and Ransomware
Ransomware and Cryptolocker Ransomware is an increasing threat to many organisations - I recently had a conversation with a (non-IT) friend whose employer had been affected, which is why I’m writing...
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