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Jack van Hoof
Jack van Hoof is an Enterprise Integration Architect at Dutch Railways where he advises on modern technologies, standards, and patterns to increase IT maturity with regard to business applications and application infrastructure, specifically in the areas of SOA, EDA, ESB and portals. He maintains a blog where he publishes his thoughts on SOA and EDA: soa-eda.blogspot.com.

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Back in the 70s everybody knew that programming was not about writing code, but about the art of designing algoritms. Edsger (Edgar) Dijkstra used the term 'elegance' for correctly designed algoritms and everybody knew exactly what he meant. Every programmer and designer knew about Str...
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I came across an interesting article of Arnon Rotem-Gal-OZ about the (mis)use of the layered architecture style. I found it an interesting article, although I have an essentially different view. I think the model of layers and tiers is a services model. As it is a services model to me...
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