Shearing Layers - Time Cockpit Case Study

Thursday, April 30, 2015 by Rainer Stropek

A few months ago I wrote a blog article about the concept of "Shearing Layers" in architecture and software development. I submitted a longer, German version of the article for OBJEKTspektrum, a well-known German magazine about IT management and software engineering. It was accepted and is included in this month's issue.

German Abstract

Architekturprinzip „Shearing Layers“: Ein Praxisbericht

Was unterscheidet ein Gebäude, das über Jahrhunderte für verschiedenste Zwecke genutzt wird, von einer Bausünde, die nach wenigen Jahrzehnten für den Abriss freigegeben ist? Das aus der Architektur stammende Konzept der „Shearing Layers“ versucht, darauf eine Antwort zu geben. Das Konzept wird in diesem Artikel vorgestellt und es wird gezeigt, wie es auf Software angewandt werden kann, damit sie langfristig und erfolgreich genutzt wird. Der Autor berichtet, wie diese Überlegungen seine praktische Arbeit als Softwarearchitekt beeinflussen.

Get the Article

The publisher of OBJEKTspektrum made it online available for free for a limited amount of time. If you speak German and you are interested in the article, you can download it here.

If the link does no longer work, you can still get the PDF-version of the article for just a few Euros here.

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Rainer Stropek

Rainer Stropek

Co-founder, architect, developer

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I am co-founder and CEO of the company software architects and have been serving this role since 2008. At software architects my team and I are developing the award-winning SaaS solution time cockpit. Previously, I founded and led IT consulting firms that worked in the area of developing software solutions based on the Microsoft technology stack.

In my work I focus on .NET development and software architecture. I have written some books and articles on C#, database development, Windows Azure, Windows 8 development, WPF, and Silverlight. Regularly I speak at conferences, do workshops and conduct trainings in Europe and the US. Since 2010 I have been MVP for Windows Azure.

I graduated the Higher Technical School Leonding (AT) for MIS with honors and hold a BSc (Hons) Computer Studies of the University of Derby (UK).

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