Microsoft pattern repository:

Posted by vgondi on June 19th 2003 to Uncategorized

MSDN launched its own pattern repository on Apr 24th 2003. An interesting piece from Stece Kirk,
“Why make a distinction between architecture and design?
Though we often use the terms interchangeably in informal contexts, in practice the distinction can be an important one. Borrowing from the mature field of building technologies, architecture refers to the building as a whole. Heating/cooling, lighting, and furnishing systems are, in this context, merely design. They can change over the lifetime of the building, with minimal effect on the architecture. Architecture encompasses design.
In the IT world, clearly defined autonomous subsystems help simplify development, testing, deployment, and operations, and suggest logical division of responsibility. Good architecture accommodates the evolution of the design of these subsystems. And like building architecture, the lifetime of IT architecture should span generations of subsystems with minimal change.”

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