Articles

Rate Article	Article	Comment	Recomended by
Your Rating: Thanks for voting! Please Wait Results: 1 rates	MDM Implemntation Politics (HOW-TO)	Very good, and hands on aricle on the challenges implementing MDM in an Organisation. Will work well on implementating SOA as well	[Bård Lind]
Your Rating: Thanks for voting! Please Wait Results: 1 rates	Top 10 SOA Pitfalls	Informative	[Ferris]
Your Rating: Thanks for voting! Please Wait Results: 1 rates	Latency Exists, Cope!	Commentary on coping with latency and it's architectural impacts	Totto
Your Rating: Thanks for voting! Please Wait Results: 1 rates	Guerilla SOA, Jim Webber, Øredev 2007	Very good and funny presentation on why you should be wairy of BIG ESBs	Per Spilling

Books

Rate book	Book	Author	Category	Recomended by
Your Rating: Thanks for voting! Please Wait Results: 1 rates	Domain Driven Design	Eric Evans	Design concepts	[Karl-August Brunstad]
Your Rating: Thanks for voting! Please Wait Results: 1 rates	Conceptual blockbusting	James L Adams	Creative problem solving	[Herbjörn Wilhelmsen]
Your Rating: Thanks for voting! Please Wait Results: 1 rates	Beautiful Code	O'Reilly	Software Design	Totto
Your Rating: Thanks for voting! Please Wait Results: 1 rates	Project OpenWings		Software Architeccture	Totto
Your Rating: Thanks for voting! Please Wait Results: 1 rates	Dan Cresswell blogs	Dan Cresswell	Blog on Software Architecture	Totto

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Articles on fundamental principles and patterns related to distributed computing

• Errant Architectures - article where Martin Fowler introduces his "First Law of Distributed Object Design: Don't distribute your objects!"
• TSS discussion on Fowler's First Law of Distributed Object Design
• Why Distributed Computing? - Jim Waldo
• A Note on Distributed Computing - Waldo, Wollrath et al
• Distributed Computing Made Easy - Jonas Boner on how Terracotta makes it easier to create distributed systems
• Fallacies of Distributed Computing - Peter Deutsch
• Lamport Clocks - How do you establish a global view of time when each computer's clock is independent
• The Byzantine Generals Problem - How to coordinate an action reliably when communicating over an unreliable link

Misc articles

• On Designing and Deploying Internet Scale Services - James Hamilton
• The Perils of Good Abstractions - Building the perfect API/interface is difficult
• http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/historical/archives/000456.html - Vogels, Epidemics
• Chaotic Perspectives - Large scale systems are everything developers dislike - unpredictable, unordered and parallel
• http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/archives/2007/04/29/3616/the-top-10-presentation-on-scaling-websites-twitter-flickr-bloglines-vox-and-more - A collection of scalable architecture papers from various of the large websites
• Memories, Guesses and Apologies - Pat Helland
• SOA and Newton's Universe - Pat Helland
• Distributed Computing Economics - Jim Gray
• Impossibility of distributed consensus with one faulty process - also known as FLP [access requires account and/or payment, a free version can be found here]
• Unreliable Failure Detectors for Reliable Distributed Systems. A method for handling the challenges of FLP
• Lazy Replication: Exploiting the Semantics of Distributed Services
• Avoiding Two-Phase Commit - Two phase commit avoidance approaches
• 2PC or not 2PC, Wherefore Art Thou XA? - Two phase commit isn't a silver bullet
• Enterprise Service Integration Patterns (ROOTS 2008)