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ADFS / WIF on Amazon EC2 by Eugenio Pace

Steve Riley’s post on growing interest from Amazon customers on identity federation is consistent with what I hear from our own customers. As part of our project , we actually tested the two scenarios he describes on EC2: “I imagine most scenarios involve...

Claims based Identity Guide – New release and PDC goodness by Eugenio Pace

New updated chapters & samples are posted on CodePlex . The samples are all updated for WIF RC and include new scenarios and technologies (e.g. web services with WCF and web sites with MVC). If you are going to PDC , lot’s of interesting things are...

Claims based Identity & Access Control Guide – Updated drafts & samples available by Eugenio Pace

Yesterday, we uploaded a new release of the Guide and the samples. You can download the content from here . (Note: if you downloaded them yesterday, you might want to check again. We mistakenly uploaded the samples with no docs. It is fixed now). You...

Exploring the Service Provider track – Fabrikam Shipping Part II (Solution) by Eugenio Pace

Now that we presented the scenario & the requirements , let’s take a look at the solution. What is conceptual solution we propose? Fabrikam Shipping in the pre-Claims era: This diagram shows Fabrikam Shipping today if used by Adatum (no claims, no...

Announcing new project – patterns & practices - Claims based Authentication & Authorization Guide by Eugenio Pace - Cloud Computing Guidance

For the next couple of months I’ll be working on a new project here at patterns & practices , developing a new guide for claims based authentication and authorization. I’m personally very happy to be working on this project, for many reasons. I believe...

Windows Azure 101 – Primitives and Application Patterns – Playing Mendeleyev by Eugenio Pace - Software as a Service Architecture Guidance

Windows Azure’s primitives are very simple, but as in many other things, the power comes from the combination of these simpler primitives to create more complex things. Look around and see how many things can be assembled from a little more than 100 Read...
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Azure IssueTracker Enterprise - Simple Demos by Eugenio Pace - Software as a Service Architecture Guidance

Provisioning IssueTracker Enterprise: Highlights: There’s no direct interaction with Access Control Service. IssueTracker uses ACS API to create the scopes, rules and the issuer (Contoso). The provisioning form captures all the required information to...
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Architecting Cloud Application for the Enterprise – Part V – Management by Eugenio Pace - Software as a Service Architecture Guidance

Having solved the identity issue, the SuperCloudySoftware team focuses then on the management requirements raised in the meeting with VeryBigCorp CIO. To recap, they want to: Be able to to monitor IssueTracker from their existing infrastructure, that...
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Architecting Cloud Applications for the Enterprise – Part IV - SuperCloudySoftware sketches IssueTracker Enterprise Edition by Eugenio Pace - Software as a Service Architecture Guidance

In the previous article , we explored the challenges of building services for an enterprise, illustrating those through a dialogue between VeryBigCorp CIO and a team from SuperCloudySoftware . VBC requirements can be summarized as: Identity integration...
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Architecting Cloud Applications for the Enterprise - Part III - SuperCloudySoftware meets VeryBigCorp CIO by Eugenio Pace - Software as a Service Architecture Guidance

Actors : the CIO at VeryBigCorp , John ( SuperCloudySoftware's CEO) and a bunch of senior developers and architects. CIO : Gentlemen, welcome. Let me start by saying that our internal Customer is absolutely fascinated with your application. Believe...
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Architecting Cloud Applications for the Enterprise - Part II - VeryBigCorp buys IssueTracker by Eugenio Pace - Software as a Service Architecture Guidance

Now that we have introduced our characters, we will start this story describing the acquisition process of IssueTracker in VeryBigCorp . IssueTracker was first used in VBC by a very limited number of people. Someone in some business unit somehow learnt...
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Architecting Cloud Applications for the Enterprise - Part I - Introducing the Actors by Eugenio Pace - Software as a Service Architecture Guidance

I will start this series by introducing the main characters of our scenario. First, we have VeryBigCorp . VBC is a large corporation, with multiple branches and subsidiaries, thousands of employees, etc. VBC is the typical organization with a rather complex...
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Architecting Cloud Services for the Big Enterprise by Eugenio Pace - Software as a Service Architecture Guidance

For the last couple of months, we’ve been working on scenarios that involve consuming cloud services and applications from "Big Enterprise" . The focus being the technical obstacles for adopting cloud services. Big Enterprise is the moniker...
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Northwind Hosting exists, it's better than what you saw and it's called SaaSGrid by Eugenio Pace - Software as a Service Architecture Guidance

Sinclair Schuller , CEO of Apprenda was kind enough to demo SaaSGrid to me earlier this week, patient enough to answer all my questions and I have to say, that I'm really impressed. What is SaaSGrid? In their own words: If you're building an on...
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