The kind of systems I will talk about is often found in the financial sphere. Today’s financial markets are all powered by computing technology. Software that backs those markets is required to perform near-real-time...
Microsoft’s developer division and the Visual Studio team have just released Microsoft.NET Application Architecture Guidance eBooks which are covering several areas: Microservices Architecture Usages of Docker containers Web Application with ASP.NET Core and Azure...
by Zoran Maksimovic · Published March 10, 2017 · Last modified November 1, 2017
I have recently participated to the 4 days course about TOGAF and if you are like me, in search for more information about it in order to complete the certification, I hope you will...
Programming / Software Architecture
by Zoran Maksimovic · Published March 15, 2013 · Last modified November 7, 2017
Software Development is so many things; to have a good start creativity, passion and methodology have to be a perfect match. While the creativity and the passion are subjective and personal, the methodology is...
Programming / Software Architecture
by Zoran Maksimovic · Published March 6, 2013 · Last modified November 2, 2017
Only few years ago I was not such a big fan of Object-Relational mapping tools (ORM), but now I have to admit that when starting a new project I’m always thinking whether it makes...
Database / Programming / Software Architecture
by Zoran Maksimovic · Published February 23, 2013 · Last modified November 8, 2017
Recently I have participated to a couple of discussions about whether the triggers or stored procedures should be used or not in a “real” project, and is the “logic in the database” pattern allowed....
Agile / Programming / Project Management / Software Architecture
by Zoran Maksimovic · Published September 5, 2012 · Last modified September 5, 2017
I’ve started adopting what I could call “agile” way of developing software only in 2007-2008. Since then I’ve become a Certified Scrum Master and trying to adopt as much techniques and methodologies to make...
Agile / Programming / Software Architecture
by Zoran Maksimovic · Published August 9, 2012 · Last modified April 2, 2017
For general information about the Aspect Oriented Programming please refer to the earlier post: Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) basics In general, PostSharp offers a great deal of different types of predefined aspects that can...
by Zoran Maksimovic · Published August 6, 2012 · Last modified October 9, 2012
What is Aspect Oriented Programming? In very simple terms AOP is a software programming technique that helps managing cross cutting concerns in software applications. Before describing what “Cross cutting concern” is, we should mention...
Programming / Software Architecture
by Zoran Maksimovic · Published July 24, 2012 · Last modified November 4, 2012
Just wondering how many different ways are there for creating Web Services (of any kind) in the Microsoft.NET stack. ASP.NET Web Services Introduced from the beginning of the Microsoft.NET. ASP.NET Web Services technology has...
Programming / Software Architecture
by Zoran Maksimovic · Published July 10, 2012 · Last modified September 8, 2017
In this post I would like to analyze the two ways of how applications can exchange data (especially when it comes to the database access). I am mainly a big advocate of SOA (Service...
Database / Software Architecture
by Zoran Maksimovic · Published May 7, 2012 · Last modified March 14, 2015
In my working career I had to deal with databases since my first day at work and it is a bit a hate-and-love relationship. Usually well working application is always backed up by a...
Agile / Books / Programming / Software Architecture
by Zoran Maksimovic · Published May 5, 2012 · Last modified November 11, 2017
The following is a list of Top 10 books that I would recommend to every experienced (or not) software developer. Very often I take inspiration by reading again and again some chapters as very...
Programming / Software Architecture
by Zoran Maksimovic · Published May 4, 2012 · Last modified November 3, 2017
We mention Cohesion vs Coupling when we are talking about Software Design Principles. Those two principles were first introduced in the book Structured Design: Fundamentals of a discipline of computer program and system design...
