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Is this your project approach? Azure Project X == Azure Subscription X Azure Project X Budget == Azure Billing Alert on Azure subscription X Azure Project X Monitoring == setup (SCOM) Azure monitoring Azure Project DEV == prepared to support the application after Go-Live? Azure Subscriptions http://blog.kloud.com.au/2013/07/30/good-practices-for-manag… Azure Billing http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/dn47977… Azure SCOM http://blogs.technet.com/b/dcaro/archive/2012/05/03/how-to-monitor-your-windows-azure-application-with-system-center-2012-part-2.aspx Regards, Sander

There are so many options, and ways of developing a solution that I would like to share some of the guidelines we are developing internally. At this moment, I will do this on the blog you are reading, focusing on the solution architectures. In parallel I’m working for my company on the enterprise architectural guidelines, and I’m trying to follow TOGAF principles to lay down the architecture. I’m hoping to be able to define the architecture context, general architecture, and relate it to the solution architecture. In the perfect world, with all the time to do this….this should result in Architectural concepts, which will be posted on: http://theenterprisecontinuum.blogspot.nl/ focused from the top-down approach of setting architectural requirements such as ‘every project must leverage a monitoring capability’, and this blog: http://snefs.blogspot.com where I will post the solution for this concept. The first post (which is basically the same as this): http://theenterprisecontinuu...

At this moment there are several ways to build exciting new applications. In several projects, we are using a hybrid/cloud architecture, specifically Windows Azure. In my upcoming posts I would like to share some of the guidelines we are developing internally, in this case specifically a way of handling errors in Azure queues/topic-subscriptions. A lot of the Azure (integration) Architectures (and even between web-worker roles) will likely use some elements of the Azure Service Bus, or Azure Queues. Going through the different architectures is not part of this post, so I will suffice with a slide from the Service Bus Deep Dive presentation; Within our company Caesar , several internal systems have been created and where possible purchased. One of them, CRM4.0 was outdated, or not suited for all our requirements (among them Accessibility online). We decided to migrate our CRM system to the Cloud, using Dynamics CRM. As not all systems are migrate and we are in the process of analyzi...

After following the IASA Architecture Core course, I like to continue with my personal learning and improvement, and focus on my architectural skills, among others. This year, by following a course on the Theory of Constraints , which is a really interesting theory which will help analyze the core issue behind a problem, and have followed the MetaPlan training which allows for a structured goal oriented brainstorm. For next year, I enrolled in a training on TOGAF. In my preparation for this, I stumbled upon the Open2Study website, where you can follow a lot of courses for free. I enrolled this weekend into the EntrArch course, which includes TOGAF. In one of the additional resources, it referred to a lot of very useful articles. So after diving into a lot of them, for learning more about architectural styles, frameworks and more. I can recommend the following; TOGAF A Comparison of the Top Four Enterprise-Architecture Methodologies Survey of Architecture Frameworks    ...