Was that Tactegic or Stractical When there’s a clash of opinion on whether to go strategic or tactical, do not waste time debating how you could do the tactical first then deploy the strategic option later. It. Never. Happens.

Planning the Plan Portfolio planning and the McFarlan Matrix in action.

Brewers CAP Theorem An explanation of Eric Brewer’s CAP theorem, which says you cannot have more than two of Consistency, Availability and Partition-tolerance in web-based distributed systems.

The Super-Geek Top Ten A super-geek top ten, exploring the more human side of some of the greatest computer scientists in history.

The Event-Driven Architecture An introduction to the event-driven architecture and the subject of complex event processing as they apply to business.

Wife Swapping and the Art of Conflict Great results requires great leadership, which is less about trying to get people to reach consensus than enabling productive conflict via the gift of the wife swap pattern.

Role Models and Services Successful SOA is about being able to define real services and not confusing them with interfaces. The secret to services is roles.

Systemic Requirements Non-functional requirements, system constraints and qualities, systemic requirements. Whatever you call them, here they are.

Solution Maturity Design, or Technical, Debt is receiving growing acceptance in the development community as a useful and practical metaphor. This article shows how it can be used as a measure of solution maturity at the enterprise level in corporate environments.

Make room for Functional Programming 2 The second of two parts explaining the main concepts of functional programming: this time through a worked example.