Case Studies, Featured Papers and Publications, Course Material on Software Architecture
Introduction
Current generation application systems are complex ecosystems—the various applications within the ecosystem have many interdependencies among them and are generally integrated at a platform level; they are not a collection of independent applications using application level integration schemes. There is a strong interdependency between business systems, IT systems, software systems, platforms, and IT infrastructure. As [...]
A rich list of features that camouflages an inherently weak architecture leads to a CMS environment that will end in chaos. Pay close attention to how important architecture issues are handled before you make a choice. In this post we shall look at some of the important architecture gotchas.
This Article describes the nature of enterprise applications from one management point of view, and it describes the issues and challenges that need to be considered when designing an enterprise application management framework.
If you were starting out on your journey of content management and were planning to setup a content management system, how would you choose the appropriate one? If you wanted to start a blog or have an organization wide wiki, the category you would look for is easy – look for a blog environment or a wiki environment. However as architects, we often have to make decisions that are more complex – where a variety of functionality is required.
Our definitions of content, how we relate to it and how we manage it has changed significantly over the last decade or so. Blogs, wikis, personal websites, social networking, bookmarks and a host of similar phenomenon has given us a set of tools to author, discover, share and review content. We have changed as individuals [...]
Welcome to the New interface of Canopus Archives Blog. I decided that it is time to move the blog to our own domain. In that process, I changed the design of the blog to make it much more easy to use.
The blogspot interface was not suitable for the kind of articles and posts I write. [...]
This article is about the privacy and security issues in the emerging collaborative and semantic web. Being a perspective essay – it describes the nature of web2.0, social computing, the evolving semantic web and what it means from a security and privacy of individuals. The major difference between the first generation Web and the third generation web is in the way objects are connected together – as an example, in many social networking sites, we not only advertise about ourselves, but also tell the world who our friends are. In a semantic web, we go one step further – we not only tell who our friends are, but we also describe how we came to know them.
In this article, We describe some personal experiences in Freelancing and a particular culture influences our human relationships. Knowing this would help us avoid some general pitfalls and unnecessary heartaches.
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