Recommended Blogs on Architecture

Recommended Blogs on Architecture

Read blogs published by architects, authors and speakers. Opinions expressed by these authors do not reflect the position of Microsoft or any other corporation.


Aaron Skonnard
Aaron Skonnard is a co-founder of Pluralsight where he focuses on XML and Web services technologies on the Microsoft .NET platform including such areas as BizTalk Server 2004 and Indigo.
Alan Cameron Wills
Alan Cameron Wills develops prototypes and ideas in the Enterprise Frameworks and Tools Architecture Group at Microsoft.
Ali Pasha
Ali Pasha is a Program Manager in the Visual Studio Enterprise Tools Group at Microsoft, working on the Distributed System Designers, which are a part of the Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Architects.
Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz
Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz is the C4ISR product line architect for a leading Israeli systems company - focusing on solution architectures and product line architectures.
Barry Gervin
Barry Gervin is an Architect MVP, a Regional Director, and a Principal Consultant and Instructor with ObjectSharp.
Beth Massi
Beth Massi is an Architect MVP and a Senior Software Architect for GiftRAP Corporation, focused on healthcare software products.
Bill Gibson
Bill Gibson is a program manager and architect in the Visual Studio Enterprise Tools Group at Microsoft, working on the Distributed System Designers, which are a part of the Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Architects.
Bill O'Brien
Bill O'Brien is an Architect Evangelist with Microsoft working in Ireland with the Irish architectural community and blogging on matters of interest to architects.
Chris Keyser
Chris Keyser is a Solutions Architect on Microsoft’s Partner Strategy Team working with partners on building the next generation of successful enterprise applications.
Christian Weyer
Christian Weyer is an Architect MVP and creator of WsContractFirst from Thinktecture.
Class Designer Team Blog
Class Designer is a fully-functional, visual design environment for the Common Language Runtime classes in Visual Studio. This blog is a forum to communicate with the team members about Class Designer.
Dare Obasanjo
Dare Obasanjo is a Program Manager with Microsoft on the database and communications services for the server infrastructure for MSN Messenger, Hotmail, MSN Mobile, and MSN Spaces.
David Chappell
David Chappell is Principal of Chappell & Associates in San Francisco, California. Through his speaking, writing, and consulting, David helps information technology professionals around the world understand, use, market, and make better decisions about enterprise software technologies.
David Hill
David is a Solution Architect on Microsoft's Developer and Partner Evangelism Architecture Strategy Team.
David Ing
David Ing is CTO of Meridian Systems and a member of the Microsoft Architecture Advisory Board.
David White
David White is an Architect Evangelist for Microsoft focused on architecture in the automotive industry.
Don Box
Don Box is an Architect for XML Messaging at Microsoft currently working on Indigo.
Doug Purdy
Doug Purdy is a Program Manger for Microsoft working on Indigo.
Ed Jezierski
Ed Jezierski is an Architect with Microsoft's Patterns & Practices.
Eric Sink
Eric Sink is the Founder and CEO of SourceGear.
Gareth Jones
Gareth Jones is a Software Engineer on Microsoft's DSL Toolkit Team.
George Cerbone
George Cerbone is an Infrastructure Architect with the US National Architecture Team in Microsoft's Developer and Platform Evangelism group. He works with customers and partners on next-generation datacenter design.
Gerke Geurts
Gerke Geurts is an Architect MVP and an independent consultant.
Grady Booch
Grady Booch is an IBM Fellow who has served as architect and architectural mentor for numerous complex software-intensive systems around the world. Grady is the author of six best-selling books and has published several hundred articles on software engineering, including papers published in the early '80s that originated the term and practice of object-oriented design.
Gregor Hohpe
Gregor Hohpe leads the enterprise integration competency at ThoughtWorks and is an Architect MVP.
Ingo Rammer
Ingo Rammer is an Architect MVP and consultant with Thinktecture and author of Advanced .NET Remoting.
Jack Greenfield
Jack Greenfield is an Architect in the Visual Studio Enterprise Tools Group at Microsoft. He's a co-author of Software Factories.
James Newkirk
James Newkirk is a Program Manager with Microsoft for GotDotNet and one of the key developers of NUnit.
Jeff Schneider
Jeff Schneider is the founder of Momentum and serves as the practice manager for the Enterprise Architecture Group.
Jeff Tash
Jeff Tash is the ITscout. This blog presents his views on Technology Architecture, Portfolios, and Standards.
Jeromy Carriere
Jeromy Carriere is a Microsoft Architect Evangelist and coauthor with Tim Mallalieu of the paper Enterprise Interoperability: .NET and J2EE.
Jim Clark
Jim Clark has spent more than 30 years in the telecommunications industry and is currently employed by Microsoft Corporation as a technical evangelist within Microsoft's Developer and Partner Evangelism Architecture Strategy Team.
Jimmy Nilsson
Jimmy Nilsson is an Architect MVP.
Joel Semeniuk
Joel Semeniuk is an Architect MVP and Regional Director.
John Crupi
John Crupi is the CTO of the Enterprise Web Service Practice at Sun Microsystems.
Jon Box
Jon Box is an Architect MVP and a Regional Director.
Josh Lee
Josh Lee has been at Microsoft for five years where he leads Microsoft’s architectural strategy for financial services.
Juha-Pekka Tolvanen
Juha-Pekka Tolvanen is the CEO of MetaCase.
Keith Pleas
Keith Pleas is an Architect MVP who works closely with Microsoft's Patterns & Practices.
Keith Short
Keith Short is an Architect with Microsoft's Visual Studio Enterprise Tools Group. He's a co-author of Software Factories.
Kevin W. Hammond
Kevin Hammond is an Architect Evangelist with Microsoft in the US, focusing on reliable messaging and alternative transports for Web services.
Klaus Probst
Klaus Probst is a senior consultant and distributed systems architect with Spherion Technology Services and an Architect MVP.
Lewis Curtis
Lewis is an IT Advisor with Microsoft's National Architecture Team focusing on next generation datacenter infrastructure architecture for Microsoft.
Maarten Mullender
Maarten Mullender is a solutions architect for the .NET Enterprise Architecture Team; this team is responsible for architectural guidance to enterprise architects.
Mario Cardinal
Listen to Mario Cardinal's Blah Blah Architecture podcast about software architecture. Mario is an Architect MVP and a senior consultant specialized in enterprise application architecture.
Marley Gray
Marley Gray is an Architect Evangelist with Microsoft and manager for the .NET Adoption Team.
Martin Fowler
Martin is the Chief Scientist for ThoughtWorks and is a member of the Microsoft Architecture Advisory Board.
Martin Gudgin
Martin Gudgin (otherwise known as Gudge) is an Project Manager with Microsoft wording on Indigo.
Matt Deacon
Matt Deacon is an Architect with Microsoft in the UK focusing on strategy level architecture and the development of architectural communities. He currently runs the UK Chapter of the IASA.
Michael Lehman
Michael Lehman works for Microsoft's Developer and Platform Evangelism Group and worked on the world software factory.
Michael Stal
Michael Stal is a computer engineer and scientist with Siemens Corporate Technology and an Architect MVP.
Michele Leroux Bustamante
Michele Leroux Bustamante is a Regional Director and the IASA Events Director.
Mike Roberts
Mike Roberts works for ThoughtWorks and is the author of Tree Surgeon.
Omri Gazitt
Omri Gazitt describes his job as Product Unit Manager (PUM) of the Advanced Web Services team at Microsoft as really all about establishing Web services as the definitive industry architecture for building interoperable distributed applications.
Paul Preiss
Paul Preiss is the President and Chairman of the International Association of Software Architects and is an Architect MVP.
Pedro Silva
Pedro Silva is a developer with Microsoft on the Domain-Specific Language Tools and the modeling framework for Visual Studio 2005.
Peter Stanski
Peter Standski is an Architect MVP.
Pierre Greborio
Pierre Greborio is chief software architect of PEWay and an Architect MVP.
Raj Wall
Raj Wall is an Architect Evangelist with Microsoft in the US focusing on enterprise architecture, software development, project management, and the architect culture and mindset.
Ralf Westphal
Ralf Westphal is a founding associate of Thinktecture, specializing in data-access and developing component oriented software. He is also an Architect MVP.
Ramesh Rajagopal
Ramesh Rajagopal is a Software Engineer with Microsoft on Class Designer.
Rebecca Dias
Rebecca Dias works for Microsoft's Developer and Platform Evangelism, focusing on connected systems.
Rich Turner
Rich Turner is a Program Manager with Microsoft working on Indigo.
Richard Hughes
Richard has been with Microsoft for six years and in the IT industry for another fourteen. He is a Program Manager with the Architecture Strategy Team tasked with managing content strategy.
Rob Caron
Rob Caron from Microsoft writes the New Team System Stuff newsletter, covering all the goings on around VSTS.
Rockford Lhotka
Rockford Lhotka is the Principal Technology Evangelist for Magenic Technologies, a company focused on delivering business value through applied technology and one of the nation's premiere Microsoft Gold Certified Partners.

Rockford is the author of several books, including the Expert Visual Basic .NET and C# Business Objects books, a Microsoft Regional Director, MVP, and an INETA speaker. He is also a columnist for MSDN Online and contributing author for Visual Studio Magazine. Rockford regularly presents at major conferences around the world - including Microsoft PDC, Tech Ed, VS Live! and VS Connections.
Sam Gentile
Sam Gentile is the Chief .NET Architect at Adesso Systems and is a C# MVP.
Scott Colestock
Scott Colestock is the Chief Architect of Trace Ventures and is a member of the Microsoft Architecture Advisory Board.
Scott Hanselman
Scott Hanselman is the Chief Architect for Corillian, focusing on retail banking solutions. He is also an Architect MVP and makes funny videos for TechEd.
Steve Cook
Steve Cook is an architect for Microsoft's DSL Toolkit Team and is a co-author of Software Factories.
Steve Maine
Steve Maine is a Program Manager with Microsoft working on Indigo.
Steve Vinoski
Steve Vinoski is Chief Engineer and Fellow at Iona.
Steven Kelly
Steven Kelly is the CTO of MetaCase.
Stuart Kent
Stuart Kent is a Program Manager at Microsoft working on infrastructure for developing modeling tools.
Ted Neward
Ted Neward is a consultant, and instructor, an Architect MVP. He is also the author of several books including Effective Enterprise Java, SSCLI Essentials and C# in a Nutshell.
Tim Ewald
Tim Ewald is a senior member of Mindreef’s technical staff, focused on best practices for designing and developing Web services and SOA.
Udi Dahan
Udi Dahan is the head of C4ISR Systems Development at KorenTec and known as a primary authority on Service Oriented Architectures in Israel.
Werner Vogels
Werner Vogels is the CTO of Amazon.com.
William Tay
William Tay is an Architect MVP.
William Zentmayer
Bill is an Architect Evangelist at Microsoft in the New York City area, focused on connected systems and service orientation.
Wojtek Kozaczynski
Wojtek Kozaczynski is an Architect for Microsoft's Patterns & Practices.


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