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Identifying the services within a service oriented CMS

In my previous post I talked about avoiding a database oriented architecture (DOA) and choosing a service oriented architecture (SOA) for our content management system (CMS). The next big question is: How do we divide our CMS into large-grained sets … Continue reading

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Database Oriented Architecture is DOA

As we began work on a new CMS for msnbc.com, one of the major pain points with the existing system that we wanted to address was its database oriented architecture – or DOA.   No, not the popular video game (searching … Continue reading

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Business services, EDA and asynchronous messaging

Business services are not the same thing as web services.  A business service is a high-level concept: a large-grained, cohesive set of business functionality.  Everywhere you see the word “service” in this post you should think “big chunk of business … Continue reading

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What is a service?

In last week’s training, one of the biggest “Aha!” moments for me was an answer to the simple question “What is a service?” As someone who consumes a lot of guidance from Microsoft’s p&p team, and looks to gurus like … Continue reading

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Udi Dahan’s distributed systems course

Last week, I had the opportunity to attend Udi Dahan‘s Advanced Distributed Systems Design using SOA & DDD in Austin, TX.  I learned a ton and gained a much clearer understanding of SOA and how to design systems using that … Continue reading

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