From the trenches: Rachel Laycock
Neal Ford interviews Rachel Laycock about her career path and her work as an architect.
Neal Ford
Neal Ford is a director, software architect, and meme wrangler at ThoughtWorks, a global IT consultancy that thinks disruptively to deliver technology to address the toughest challenges, all while seeking to revolutionize the IT industry and create positive social change. Neal focuses on designing and building large-scale enterprise applications. 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 magazine articles, seven books (and counting), and dozens of video presentations and has spoken at hundreds of developers conferences worldwide on the topics of software architecture, continuous delivery, functional programming, and cutting-edge software innovations. Check out his website at Nealford.com. He welcomes feedback and can be reached at nford@thoughtworks.com.
Radar
From the trenches: Patrick Kua
Neal Ford interviews Patrick Kua about his career path and his work as an architect.
From the trenches with Rebecca Parsons
Rebecca Parsons shares the story of her career path and her work as an architect.
From the trenches: An interview with Mark Richards
Neal Ford talks with Mark Richards about his career path and his work as a software architect.
Becoming an accidental architect
How software architects can balance technical proficiencies with an appropriate mastery of communication.
5 questions that will make you a better software architect
Experienced software architects share their defining moments.
Contrasting architecture patterns with design patterns
How architecture and design patterns can add clarity and understanding to your project.
4 reasons why microservices resonate
Microservices optimize evolutionary change at a granular level.
Content
10 talks to look for at the 2018 O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference in London
From chaos architecture to event streaming to leading teams, the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference offers a unique depth and breadth of content.
How to set up and run your own Architectural Katas
Neal Ford explains the ground rules for building software architectures.
Engineering incremental change
This chapter from Building Evolutionary Architectures describes architectures that support incremental change along with some of the engineering practices used to achieve incremental change.
Engineering practices for microservices
Learn about key microservices principles like Last Responsible Moment, risk sliders to assess benefit versus risk, heatlhchecks, and metrics.
Elvis has left the ivory tower
Pragmatism now rules in team structure, technology, engineering practices, and operational innovation.