The high level design and description of software systems frequently characterized by having large quantities of persistent data that is accessed concurrently.
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What is enterprise software, exactly?
I don't understand the difference between "normal" software and enterprise software. Even after reading these...
"Enterprise Software" on Wikipedia
"Enterprise Software Is Sexy Again" on Techcrunch ...
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Which platform to choose, Java or .NET?
I am working in a private bank, a leading mid size bank in local market. We are going to create our core banking solution. Existing solution has been developed on Java using IBM Visual Age 4.0.
It is ...
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Are there any notable examples of business disasters directly attrutible to open-source software? [closed]
In "enterprise" environments, I've observed a strong prejudice towards proprietary software. Even in large business that use Java, it is unusual to find MySQL or PostgreSQL, and WebSphere and WebLogic ...
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De-facto standards for customer information record
I'm currently evaluating a potential new project that involves creating a DB for typical customer information (userid, pwd, first & last name, email, adress, telfnr ...). At this point, ...
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Standard practices for an architect
I am the architect for my group. Unfortunately I was given this position organically and there are no standards in place for how I should do my job. At different companies, how does the architect role ...
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How to architect enterprise desktop applications for Windows 8
I think I have a grasp on the expectations of consumer application development for Windows 8. Create a new Metro-based UI on top of WinRT, deploy it to your customer via the Marketplace, and everyone ...
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How granular should a command be in a CQ[R]S model?
I'm considering a project to migrate part of our WCF-based SOA over to a service bus model (probably nServiceBus) and using some basic pub-sub to achieve Command-Query Separation.
I'm not new to SOA, ...
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Can cloud computing replace enterprise architecture?
Is cloud computing mature enough to alleviate some of the pains of maintaining the IT infrastructure on site? If so, what are some of the drawbacks of adopting it? Is security and privacy a big ...
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How Do You Organize Your ASP.NET MVC 3 Applications? [duplicate]
The one thing that I am having a hard time figuring out with developing an extensible application platform in ASP.NET MVC 3 is how to modularize everything into an easy to update and distributable ...
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What considerations should be given for and against “super” sites?
My company is considering consolidating all their tier-1 (i.e. top end production) applications and sites into one all-encompassing code base.
The theory is that their permissions, design and overall ...
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Why should large financial/insurance companies use git and/or github
I work for a large enterprise (30K employees) in the financial/insurance industry. While "IT" isn't our main focus, let's be honest, these are information driven industries and the companies with the ...
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Enterprise VS Regular corporate developer
Ok, I "almost" lost a job offer because I "didn't have enough experience as an enterprise software engineer".
I've been a programmer for over 16 years, and the last 12-14 professionally, at companies ...
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What are the most common ways used to migrate a Delphi application incrementally to .NET?
If you have several million lines of Delphi code and want to incrementally migrate to .NET/C#, what strategy would you use?
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Moving all UI logic to Client Side?
Our team originally consisted of mostly server side developers with minimum expertise in Javascript.
In ASP.NET we used to write a lot of UI logic in code-behind or more recently through controllers ...
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What are options for 3rd Party Centralized Software Settings Management?
I am an architect in an enterprise looking to build a SaaS solution. Our products are distributed over many different deployable containers, Web Services, Web UI's, etc.
I am looking for some ...
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Help me classify this type of software architecture
I read some books about software architecture as we are using it in our project but I can't classify the architecture properly. It's some kind of Enterprise Architecture, but what exactly... SOA, ESB ...
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Applications Architecture - fewer big systems vs more smaller systems
re: Applications Architecture, that is, "the science and art of ensuring the suite of applications being used by an organization to create the composite application is scalable, reliable, available ...
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Maintenance model for external artifacts
When we think about maintaining a software solution holistically, we have to think about things like non-code change control and configuration management, in addition to the actual source code. For ...
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Are external configuration files considered an antipattern?
Many times I have been in a situation where an application is apparently broken, only to find that an external configuration file has been at fault. Typically this is because the wrong file is there, ...
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Does project architecture have a strong relation to used libraries?
Programmers, when it comes to talk about popular patterns in enterprise applications, preach that you should code against interfaces to remove strong relations between components; doing this will aid ...
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Has anyone successfully used Windows Workflow for a Business Rules/Validation engine?
I was wondering if anyone has successfully used Windows Workflow Foundation for a BusinessRules/Validation engine, or if you know of some sample code or articles about this.
If you have used it ...
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What are requirements for a successful SOA?
I’m an EA in an organisation with 10000+ employees. Strategically we are heading towards SOA. Currently I’m researching about SOA’s and creating a road map and I have come over many blogs that talk ...
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Dev vs Stage environment vs Prod Environment
I work for a company where we build enterprise applications, and we maintain three environments: dev, stage and prod.
The meaning of dev is intuitive: it's the environment used during development of ...
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Would experience in multiple programming languages/frameworks assist one in becoming a software architect?
Would it be useful to have experience in multiple programming languages/frameworks/stacks when applying for a software architect role?
For example, combining experience in C#/.NET with Java/J2EE.
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Is “Experience working on large projects” something that I should strive for?
This is in the context of job search.
There are fancy words such as "Enterprise software" (as opposed to a school project).
Then there is the experience of developing/architecting large software ...
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Project/DLL separation of concerns in ASP.NET MVC
I'm coming from a web forms n-tier background into ASP.NET MVC projects, and I'm wondering what the best practices are for separation of the components of MVC into different libraries (or not to) in ...
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Is SOA an Utopia? [closed]
I have attended to many SOA related sales pitches and presentations through the years. SOA projects have died because of lack of interest or because of grandiose scopes. The very buzzword has lost ...
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What are some high quality Enterprise Architecture conferences or training programs?
I am looking for a conference or training which will give me a broad exposure to enterprise level software architecture. I've been with the same company for 10 years and we've grown to the size where ...
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Handling (many) multiple projects in Git in an enterprise environment
One of the advantages of older version control systems such as CVS and SVN in enterprise development is that anyone can connect to source control and see all the projects that the company has. This ...
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Can agile be effectively used for initial development on a substantial project?
I think the short answer to this question is probably "yes", but I thought I'd ask anyway!
We are in the process of taking a number of existing similar-but-different applications and, as part of what ...
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Choosing right technology for messaging system
I'm working on a messaging system for two years now, the system was written by a long ago gone team and involves emails and document processing. The basic process is:
Receive an email, parse it, ...
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What is the best way to create and guide an enterprise architecture?
Wikipedia defines Enterprise Architecture as follows:
An enterprise architecture (EA) is a
rigorous description of the structure
of an enterprise, its decomposition
into subsystems, the ...
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1answer
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How best to design Access Control Layer in n-tier architecture application
This is a typical architecture scenario for a 3-tier design:
UI-tier
Has Graphical User Interface components
Middle-tier
Has business logic including the following layers:
Data Access Layer ...
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Multi-platform design with Delphi, Java, MySQL and CouchDB
What are the most obvious drawbacks to this idea for an enterprise(ish) model using the following technologies.
Browser based and native developed GUI using Delphi to connect to
Datasnap server ...
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How should I architect multi-language support for a group of applications?
I have about 8 web applications (all of them ASP.NET based), and I want to implement multiple language support for all of them and have an architecture that I can leverage on new web applications down ...
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Best practice refactor n-tier into vertical slices architecture
What work path do there exist to identify reasonable vertical slices of a classic n-tier platform code base and infrastructure (enterprise size)? Regardles of refactor or a new solution I think there ...
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1answer
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What is one correct architecture when using a DB with multiple clients?
We have a legacy system with data stored in a SQL database.
Several clients connects to this database using a web service.
The web service expose a lot of "commands" to query the database and to "do" ...
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2answers
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Design Pattern for enterprise application
I read few articles about composite pattern and I want to know whether its applicable in following situation,
I found that "A Composite Entity object can represent a coarse-grained
object and all its ...
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1answer
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How do the Application and Database Interface Layers interact at their boundary?
I was watching one of Uncle Bob's videos and he brought up the Database Interface Layer. He had this diagram showing it:
These arrows show that the DB Interface Layer is aware of and calls the ...
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What does “enterprise” means in relation to software architecture?
I see the term "enterprise" being thrown around software developers and programmers a lot and used loosely it seems.
en·ter·prise/ˈentərˌprīz/
Noun: A project or undertaking, typically one ...
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1answer
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When using Java Persistence API (JPA), which layer owns the entities?
When working with annotations on entities in JPA, do these entities belong to the model layer or the persistence layer?
Does there have to be some kind of clone of the entities (simple JavaBeans) in ...
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1answer
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Location of Solution Components - Centralisation versus Multiple Instances versus Libraries
We're currently in the early stages of building a substantial system, aiming to do much of what several existing systems do, in a flexible, extensible, maintainable way. It will support multiple ...
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1answer
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Silverlight - modularity. Best way to physically separate binaries?
We are working on LoB app with lot's of content. XAP download will be rather large I think for one time download. I'm planning to break solution into separate projects.
Not sure why - but I DO NOT ...
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1answer
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Learning Sparx Enterprise Architect
I have a basic working knowledge of Enterprise Architect with 6 months experience. But I would like to learn how to use more of it.
Anyone have a recommendation for a learning source or course?
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1answer
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Benefits of integration platform
We are looking at introducing an integration platform.
In the begining it is an extra layer and an extra cost. But after a while the service that a new system needs will be available on the ...
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1answer
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Should I use a single platform for common services or modularize them?
I am designing a suite of web applications that have the same base functionality. That is, they all will know how to create and operate on widgets. The differences will be in their target audience and ...
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Should I cache the data or hit the database?
I have not worked with any caching mechanisms and was wondering what my options are in the .net world for the following scenario.
We basically have a a REST Service where the user passes an ID of a ...
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Enterprise Architecture Certification
I want to make the step up from developer to enterprise architect. I have 13 years experience in various environments, from SME line of business apps to investment banking enterprise systems. I'm ...
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What are the most commonly used enterprise Java technologies, and what would you want a non technical audience to understand about them?
I have been asked to give a presentation to a non-technical audience on what Java technologies are currently being used in the enterprise world. The goal is to give this non-technical audience the ...
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Switch interface implementation using configuration [closed]
We want to allow the same core service to be either fully implemented or, as other option, to be a proxy toward a client legacy system (via a WSDL for example).
In that way, we have both ...
