Tag Archives: architecture

Conditions for success by hard coding

Posted on March 3, 2012 by sean

I was reading the latest IEEE Software and came across a piece by Grady Booch that I wanted to capture here and reflect upon. The piece is mainly about his experience with systems that grow in complexity over time and … Continue reading →

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Enterprise Architecture definition

Posted on August 2, 2011 by sean

Been following a very flouncy thread on structure smells in an EA, and the guy starting the thread couldn’t define sufficiently well the starting point for what he meant by enterprise and application architectures. Here is the TOGAF definition, which … Continue reading →

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ID provisioning with clouds

Posted on July 28, 2011 by sean

The architectural ideal is to have a single source of authority for identity and AuthN/Z claims, hopefully based on something nice and open like LDAP. Then we began to see lots of federated identity solutions entering with SAML type federations. … Continue reading →

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Strong Factor AuthN and Federated SSO

Posted on July 27, 2011 by sean

Some interesting webinars on modern security practices, including tokenization and federated SSO strong factor AuthN. Tweet

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SAS 70 -> SSAE 16 – What does it impact?

Posted on July 21, 2011 by sean

As you probably know, there is a new specification for the security audit. It was SAS 70, but is now SSAE 16. This is an important consideration if you are consuming a service from someone else, or if you provide … Continue reading →

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Do you have any of the top 25 coding errors in your code?

Posted on July 2, 2011 by sean

This year’s list of the top 25 coding errors was released by the Common Weakness Enumeration project. Development teams and management should be aware of these trends and use them as quality requirements lists in their own development processes. Tweet

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IT Empire Balkanizaiton

Posted on June 17, 2011 by sean

Brian Hopkin’s posed an interesting question on what would happen when there was no longer a central IT shop for an organization. It stirred up the responses, as one would expect. I, for one, fall into the camp that the … Continue reading →

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SOAP vs REST

Posted on June 17, 2011 by sean

I was in a discussion the other day with someone questioning REST over SOAP and why on earth one would use REST rather than SOAP. Following are some thoughts on the matter. Tweet

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