The new Architecture Journal 17. The theme of this journal issue is Distributed Computing. You may be asking yourself, well isn't that already well established? Yes and no... The traditional way of thinking about distributed computing is, however with the emergence of new architectural styles such as Robotics, SaaS and Cloud Computing the game changes a bit.

There are a number of articles in this issue and are definitely worth the read:

• Considerations for Designing Distributed Systems
• Architectural Patterns for Distributed Computing
• Head in the Cloud, Feet on the Ground
• Architecture Journal Profile: Microsoft Robotics Group
• On Distributed Embedded Systems
• Using Events in Highly Distributed Architectures
• Caching in the Distributed Environment
• Distributed Applications in Manufacturing Environments

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