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Domain-Driven Design in an Evolving Architecture

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Architecture,
Java
Topics
Object Oriented Design,
Modeling,
Design

Mat Wall and Nik Silver explain how their has been using Domain-Driven Design in an evolving and Agile environment, at high traffic news site guardian.co.uk.

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MindScape Has Released LightSpeed 2.0

Community
.NET
Topics
Modeling,
Design

MindScape has released version 2.0 of their domain modeling and ORM tool. LightSpeed 2.0 includes a visual domain model designer integrated with Visual Studio 2008, support for LINQ and the ability to access multiple databases concurrently.

Opinion: When Designing Your SOA - Taste is Everything

Community
SOA
Topics
Methodologies,
Design,
Web Services

Dan Creswell claims that "taste is everything" when it comes to putting together the pieces that make a good SOA. Dan says that picking the technology stack for distributed services, how you layer the service "units", etc, are a matter of taste as well as consideration of a number of guidelines, as opposed to just taking a cookie cutter approach to SOA as some seem to claim is possible.

Articles about Design

REST Anti-Patterns

Community
SOA
Topics
REST,
Design

In this article, Stefan Tilkov explains some of the most common anti-patterns found in applications that claim to follow a "RESTful" design and suggests ways to avoid them: tunneling everything through GET or POST, ignoring caching, response codes, misusing cookies, forgetting hypermedia and MIME types, and breaking self-descriptiveness.

Nate Kohari on Releasing Ninject 1.0

Community
.NET
Topics
Design,
Loose Coupling

Ninject is touted as a lightning-fast, ultra-lightweight dependency injector for .NET applications. Helping developers split applications into a collection of loosely-coupled, highly-cohesive pieces, and then glue them back together in a flexible manner. Using Ninject to support your software's architecture, your code will become easier to write, reuse, test, and modify.

Interviews about Design

Randy Shoup Discusses the eBay Architecture

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Architecture,
SOA
Topics
Fault Tolerance,
Design,
Search,
Performance & Scalability,
Enterprise Architecture,
Grid Computing

In this interview from QCon San Francisco 2007, Randy Shoup discusses the architecture of eBay. Topics discussed include eBay's architectural principles, horizontal and vertical partitioning, ACID vs. BASE, handling data inconsistency, distributed caching, updating eBay on the fly, architectural and coding standards, eBay's search infrastructure, grid computing, and SOA.

Michael Stal on Architecture Refactoring

Community
Architecture
Topics
Enterprise Architecture,
Design

In this interview from OOPSLA 2007, Michael Stal talks about architecture refactoring. He describes what architecture refactoring is, its relationship to code refactoring and patterns, and he gives real world examples of how architecture refactorings have been done and when not to do it.

Presentations about Design

REST Eye for the SOA Guy

Community
SOA
Topics
REST,
Design

In a presentation recorded at QCon San Francisco, CORBA guru Steve Vinoski introduces REST from the perspective of a traditional SOA person. He explains the goals of the various constraints REST imposes, and the desirable properties one can gain from adhering to them. In a hypothetical discussion with a "SOA guy", Steve addresses various frequent doubts people express when they first look at REST.

Managing Variability in Product-Lines

Community
Architecture,
Java
Topics
Reuse,
Design

In this talk, Markus Völter illustrates how model-driven and aspect oriented software development help addressing the challenge of managing variability in product line engineering. Both the problem space and the solution space are described by models, using a model-to-model transformation to map problem space variability to solution space variability.