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• Viva Cloud! Viva!

  Lets face it – most IT systems don’t really work as well as we would like.  Surely by now we would have figured out how to build systems where you don’t have to have a different username/password for ever system accompanied by different ‘forgot password’ Read More... Posted 30 June 2009 14:48 by simon.munro | 0 Comments Filed under: Cloud, Enterprise Architecture, cloud computing

• The Cloud is a Response to Demand

  The cloud, and cloud technologies, came about not from a sinister attempt by big companies to take over the world, but from our collective demand for computing resources.  Without even looking for statistics we know, as consumers or business, that Read More... Posted 17 April 2009 10:57 by simon.munro | 2 Comments Filed under: Enterprise Architecture, cloud computing

• Bring on the Private Cloud

  To me the private cloud is an anti-cloud – I don’t see how a private cloud can possibly provide the economies of scale and office empire neutraility to make it an attractive alternative to a standard heavy-metal data centre. But maybe, just maybe, the Read More... Posted 10 March 2009 17:24 by simon.munro | 0 Comments Filed under: Azure, Cloud, Enterprise Architecture, cloud computing

• Consistency is an Unnecessary Obsession

  In order to build massively scalable databases you, as an architect, will have to toss out data consistency. The knee-jerk reaction is that consistency cannot and should not be compromised but the reality is that real-time consistency is less important Read More... Posted 06 March 2009 15:56 by simon.munro | 3 Comments Filed under: Azure, Cloud, Enterprise Architecture, cloud computing, Database

• ORMs map to the wrong thing

  With direct access to relational databases being marginalised we need to question the next evolution of ORMs. Now our architectures have to be more considerate of other ways accessing data as relational models hide behind services, sit on the cloud or Read More... Posted 12 February 2009 21:48 by simon.munro | 5 Comments Filed under: SQL Server, Data Access, .NET, Azure, Cloud, Entity Framework, ALT.NET, Enterprise Architecture, ORM, SDS

• Defining the Cloud

  Definitions of technology that are clearly understood by a few early adopters are quickly thrown into disarray as soon as they become mainstream.  Marketers feel the need to become buzzword compliant and take to using the name of the technology to Read More... Posted 27 January 2009 17:15 by simon.munro | 1 Comments Filed under: Azure, Cloud, Enterprise Architecture, cloud computing

• Controllers, Doers and the Entity Framework

  I don't envy the work that Enterprise Architects (EA) do.  The closest that they actually get to architecture is describing, often in PowerPoint, a target 'to-be' architecture that will never actually materialize because something will change before Read More... Posted 10 December 2008 14:05 by simon.munro | 3 Comments Filed under: LINQ to SQL, Microsoft, .NET, Entity Framework, ALT.NET, Enterprise Architecture