The software development ecosystem is constantly changing, providing a constant stream of new tools, frameworks, techniques, and paradigms. Over the past few years, incremental developments in core engineering practices for software development have created the foundations for rethinking how architecture changes over time, along with ways to protect important architectural characteristics as it evolves. This practical guide ties those parts together with a new way to think about architecture and time.
The software development ecosystem is constantly changing, providing a constant stream of new tools, frameworks, techniques, and paradigms. Over the past few years, incremental developments in core engineering practices for software development have created the foundations for rethinking how architecture changes over time, along with ways to protect important architectural characteristics as it evolves. This practical guide ties those parts together with a new way to think about architecture and time.
Neal Ford is a director, software architect, and meme wrangler at
ThoughtWorks, a software company and a community of passionate,
purpose-led individuals who think disruptively to deliver
technology to address the toughest challenges, all while seeking to
revolutionize the IT industry and create positive social change.
He's an internationally recognized expert on software development
and delivery, especially in the intersection of Agile engineering
techniques and software architecture. Neal has authored seven books
(and counting), a number of magazine articles, and dozens of video
presentations and spoken at hundreds of developers conferences
worldwide. His topics include software architecture, continuous
delivery, functional programming, cutting-edge software
innovations, and a business-focused book and video on improving
technical presentations. Check out his website, Nealford.com. Dr.
Rebecca Parsons is ThoughtWorks' Chief Technology Officer. She has
more years of application development experience than she cares to
admit, in industries ranging from telecommunications to emergent
internet services. She has extensive experience leading in the
creation of large-scale distributed object applications and the
integration of disparate systems. Patrick Kua is a seasoned
technology leader with 20+ years of experience. His current mission
is accelerating the growth of technical leaders through coaching,
mentoring and training. He has had many years of hands-on
experience, leading, managing and improving complex organizations
and software systems as the CTO and Chief Scientist of N26 (Berlin,
Germany) and as a Technical Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks.
He is a frequent keynote and conference speaker, author of three
books including The Retrospective Handbook, Talking with Tech Leads
and Building Evolutionary Architectures and runs the free popular
newsletter for leaders in tech, a Level Upa?A (http:
//levelup.patkua.com) and the Tech Lead Academy, offering online
training for technical leaders. You can find him online on twitter
as @patkua or running his very popular a Shortcut to Tech
Leadershipa?A workshop. Pramod Sadalage is Director Data & DevOps
at Thoughtworks, where he enjoys the rare role of bridging the
divide between database professionals and application developers.
He is usually sent in to clients with particularly challenging data
needs, which require new technologies and techniques. In the early
2000's he developed techniques to allow relational databases to be
designed in an evolutionary manner based on version-controlled
schema migrations.
He is co-author of Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern
Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures, co-author of
Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design, co-author of
Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Emerging World of Polyglot
Persistence, author of Recipes for Continuous Database Integration,
and continues to speak and write about the insights he and his
clients learn.
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