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Sam is an independent Technical Architect working in Central London. His speciality is Enterprise Java Systems, with which he has architected and developed systems for the Financial Services, Retail, and Logistics industries.
He has co-written several books on the subject of Enterprise Java and is a keen speaker at conferences.

E-mail : sam.dalton at codingthearchitecture.com

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Software Architect 2008

We were speakers at, and community sponsors of Software Architect 2008
(3rd-5th June 2008, London). Here are the slides from our conference sessions.

Community

London User Group : Download the slides from our last London user group. Details of previous sessions are also available.
Google Group : Sign-up for discussion related to software architecture.
Facebook group : If you're on Facebook, join our group and see who else is interested in software architecture near you.

Essays from the book

What is architecture?
Towards a definition of architecture
Mind the gap
Reducing the gap between software developers and software architects

Recent Blog Entries

Who should own the non-functional tests?
This is a follow-up to a post entitled Performance tuning Java systems that I made last year, which talked about some performance testing that I was doing for a customer. Last week, I went back to the same customer to make some small tweaks to the test ...
Slides from our Software Architect 2008 sessions
As mentioned before, we were speakers at, and community sponsors of the Software Architect 2008 conference (3rd-5th June 2008, London). This is the first dedicated software architecture conference that I've been to and the majority of the other attendees ...
London User Group - June 2008
Here are the details of the June London User Group. Title : Themes from the Software Architect 2008 conference Summary : Join us for a discussion of the themes from the recent Software Architect 2008 conference that took place in early June at the ...

[London User Group] Themes from Software Architect 2008.

Download the slides from our June 2008 user group.

Understanding Enterprise SOA

I am currently reading Manning's Understanding Enterprise SOA. This book aims to give technologists and business people an intergrated picture of the issues and their interdependencies using a continuing case study. I hope to get a "beyond the hype" view of SOA and to understand better the business concerns behind SOA.

I will give a full review when I have finished reading the book, and I have high hopes from what I have read so far!

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Posted by Sam Dalton on 06 February 2006 11:15:43 GMT #

Re: Understanding Enterprise SOA

Comment from Ed Gibbs on 07 February 2006 05:10:49 GMT #

I'm reading this as well. It's not really deep technically, but I am impressed that it gives a good overview and points out some of the pitfalls. It isn't the rah rah type book on SOA there has been so much of.

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