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Introduction 4 Day Training Workshop on the Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF)
Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF). 4 Day (12 Hour) workshop will serve as an introduction to the framework and provide practical guidance on how to apply TOGAF for the analysis and design of information systems and aligning these with the organizations business strategy.

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The Zen of Architecture
The one thing you can be sure of when it comes to software architecture is that there will never be a shortage of different ways to solve the same problem. The key is to look for the areas of volatility in the design and decompose it to its simplest element.

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We Don't Need No Architects
The role of an architect in software development has come under attack of late. On software projects, the title Architect is often ambiguously defined and the value provided by architects is not easily quantifiable. The perception that architects live in an "ivory tower" disassociated from the realities of delivering a software solution contributes to some of the animosity toward those of us with the title.

his article presents a defense of the practice of architecture in software development.

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Best practices for Web services versioning
API versioning is a common problem in the design of any distributed system, and Web services are unfortunately no exception. In this article, Kyle Brown and Michael Ellis will outline the scope of the versioning difficulties facing Web services developers, provide some template solutions, and discuss architectures and best practices for addressing the problem



SOA fundamentals in a nutshell
Mohamed I. Mabrouk, Software Engineer, IBM

So why is everyone so excited SOA? What does it provide, and how can it help? Should it be used in all cases? Let's answer these questions one at a time

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BI-to-LOB Integration: Closing the Cycle
The business value of business intelligence (BI) will be attained only when it leads to actions that result in increased revenue or reduced cost. This article discusses the necessity of architecting BI solutions that focus on actionable data and information flow back to line-of- business (LOB) applications.

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Introducing the Microsoft Web Farm Framework
The Microsoft Web Farm Framework is a free product Microsoft shipping that enables you to easily provision and mange a farm of web servers. It enables you to automate the installation and configuration of platform components across the server farm, and enables you to automatically synchronize and deploy ASP.NET applications across them. It also supports integration with load balancers - and enables you to automate updates across your servers so that your site/application is never down or unavailable to customers (it can automatically pull servers one-at-a-time out of the load balancer rotation, update them, and then inject them back into rotation

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  • Understanding Architecture Framework's (TOGAF, Zachman)
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