Update: Over the past 90 days, I have been hearing more and more about Health 2.0 -- the use of Web 2.0, Gov 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 technologies to help improve medicine and health care. In response of I have updated my post outlining the major HHS and FDA regulations any Health 2.0 service...
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Updated: Health 2.0 Challenges: Managing Biotech, Pharma and Health Care User-generated Content (UGC)
Article III for Good Architecture: Extensibility (a.k.a. How I Used Polymorphism to Convert a Lead-Gen Project into a Service that Generated Over $1Bn of Value Across Multiple Lines of Business)
We have all heard the mantra, “write once, re-use everywhere,” to describe the concept of creating technology that can ubiquitously to create value in many places. However, publishing APIs alone will not achieve this. To be ubiquitous, you must incorporate the principle of Extensibility into every aspect of design, development and operation. Here is...
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Article II for Good Architecture: Isolation of Logic By Application Area (Where I Break with Many COTS Vendors)
Correct isolation of logic in your applications can enable them to “turn on a dime,” rapidly adapting to changing business rules and requirements. Placing logic in the wrong places can lead to spaghetti, long test cycles or (even worse) complete breakage of your data model. This is why “Isolation of Logic by Type" is...
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Article I for Good Architecture: Modularity and Encapsulation (And How I Would Use This to Make Money via Facebook)
Use of modularity and encapsulation if one of the most powerful approaches to scaling architecture (your ability to built it, your cost to operate it--AND the value you can obtain from it). Those enterprises who incorporate this into the DNA of their technology create "killer networks" that can used to generate enormous value...
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Follow-up to “The Best Architecture Document in History” (New Series)
A few weeks back, I shared an observation from one of AOL’s former CTO’s that the US Constitution was the best architecture document in history (my apologies to my colleagues from other countries). As we approach US Independence Day, I thought it would be appropriate to begin a series that presented the Architecture Constitution...
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The Best Architecture Document in History
In 2000, AOL's Chief Technology Officer held an offsite for all of the Chief Architects from AOL, Netscape, CompuServe, ICQ and MapQuest (this was before the closure of the merger with Time Warner. After he posed a question to all of us, "What do you think was the best architecture document in history?"...
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Big Web 2.0 Technology Challenges: Utility-class Scaling of Dynamic Data
In the Web 1.0 world could use different approaches to scale static and dynamic data. This does not translate well into a Web 2.0 world where most content is dynamic (i.e., user-generated content) that can come from ANYWHERE…
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Four Big Technology Challenges in a Web 2.0 World
I will be a panel speaker the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Interactive Media initiative next month discussing how Web 2.0 is creating new challenges for CxOs in how they manage technology. To prepare, I am starting a series of posts on the challenges I face day-to-day on this (and how they are different from...
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