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The Microsoft Application Platform: A Perspective
# Monday, June 22, 2009
I spoke at a Microsoft conference in Holland last month, and a video of one of the talks I gave is now online. Its title is The Microsoft Application Platform: A Perspective, and it covers a potpourri of different things: the relationship between application platforms and business strategy, a simple model for thinking about application platforms today, a look at the on-premises and cloud platforms of various vendors using this model, and more.
Now that I think about it, a better title for this session might have been Things David Thinks are Interesting in the Application Platform World Today.
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Perspectives on Application Lifecycle Management
# Thursday, June 11, 2009
The first of the four short papers I wrote recently on ALM, What is Application Lifecycle Management?, was published a few weeks ago. The other three are also now available. They are:
- Application Lifecycle Management and Business Strategy
- Application Lifecycle Management as a Business Process
- Tools for Team Development: Why Vendors are Finally Getting It Right
All four were sponsored by Microsoft, but they're not about Microsoft technologies. Instead, they're intended to help IT decision makers think about ALM in a broad sense.
IT innovation is fundamental to creating new value in the world, and ALM is fundamental to IT innovation. Understanding this topic and getting good at it ought to be on the top of every IT organization's agenda.
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On Being Independent
# Thursday, June 04, 2009
If you're interested in working as a technology consultant, either on your own or for a consulting firm, I strongly encourage you to pick up a copy of Aaron Erickson's book The Nomadic Developer: Surviving and Thriving in the World of Technology Consulting. It's a first-rate description of the consulting world, looked at from many different angles. Anybody who's even considering this career path ought to buy this book.
The book's last chapter is a collection of short essays contributed by people who've made a career in consulting, including me. Addison-Wesley, the book's publisher, gave me permission to post my contribution. Called On Being Independent, it's available here.
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An Update to Introducing the Azure Services Platform
# Monday, June 01, 2009
Microsoft has made some important updates to various parts of the Azure Services Platform. Accordingly, I've updated the overview white paper I wrote on Azure last fall. The new version is available here.
The biggest change is in SQL Data Services, which now will provide a standard relational datastore. This is really important, as the absence of relational storage was a gaping hole in the original announcement. It's great to see that Microsoft is fixing this.
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