I wanted to share a couple of updates about the Microsoft Architecture Journal: 1.  Issue 16 has just been released to the web!  You can find it here, and can also download a PDF version of the magazine here.  The theme of issue 16 is Identity and Access, and Diego explains more about the articles in his blog post. 2.  The ...

Interested in writing for the next issue of the Architecture Journal - and having your article read by over 62,000 people in multiple languages, and distributed at PDC and SAF this year?  If so, check out the call for papers from Diego Dagum.  The theme of the next issue is around distributed computing. 

It's a good question - and one that we try to answer in the current version of the Architecture Journal, aptly titled "The Role of an Architect".  There are a lot of great articles in this issue, although my favorite has to be the "A-Z guide to being an architect" by Mark Bloodworth and Marc Holmes. You can read the ...

When I started blogging, I made a promise that I would never write one of those posts that starts "I'm sorry I haven't blogged in a long time, but I've been really busy...".  Well, here I am writing one of those posts...  A couple of months ago I took on a new role leading the DPE platform architecture team here at Microsoft, ...

The next issue of the Architecture Journal will be focused on Identity Architectures. As more organizations embrace a services based infrastructure, the need to manage the identities of users in an organization becomes more and more important. Issues that have been easy to manage in traditional environments need now to be considered from the ...

As you may have seen from previous posts, my team has been working on a set of materials for those that want to have the title of ''architect'' at some point in their career.  Last week we published a new set of content on MSDN:  101 x 101 articles on becoming an architect.  Think of these as a set of level 101 articles that cover ...

A little late, but Happy New Year!  For those that subscribe to this blog to keep track of the latest with the Architecture Journal, we have just released the online articles for Issue 14 (Mobile Architecture).  You can check it out on http://www.architecturejournal.net. 

Each November my team holds a conference called SAF - the Strategic Architect Forum - an event where we invite the top 250 IT Architects from organizations around the world for three days of discussions and sessions.  Although the conference is in it's seventh year, being an invite-only event we traditionally haven't shared ...

We've just put the final touches on Issue 14 of the Microsoft Architecture Journal, which goes to print later this month. As we head into the New Year, the theme of the next issue will be around The Role of an Architect. This is the first time that we are going to look at the role and our profession, and I'm excited to hear ...

With 13 issues and over 60,000 subscribers, you are probably already familiar with the printed and PDF versions of the Microsoft Architecture Journal. At the Strategic Architect Forum (SAF) last week we released a new way of reading the Journal:  The Architecture Journal Reader.  Based on WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) and the ...