2016 European Software Development Salary Survey
Find out what pays and what doesn't for European software engineers, developers, and other programming professionals.
Observations on the changing discipline of software architecture.
Ideas
Are microservices for you? You might be asking the wrong question.
Deciding whether to use microservices starts with understanding what isn’t working for you now.
5 questions that will make you a better software architect
Experienced software architects share their defining moments.
2 great benefits of Python generators (and how they changed me forever)
Learn how to elegantly encapsulate and efficiently scale with Python generators.
5 reasons to finally learn design patterns
Crafted by experienced object-oriented practitioners, design patterns can make your designs more flexible, more resilient to change, and easier to maintain.
Highlights from the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in London 2016
Watch highlights covering software architecture, microservices, distributed systems, and more. From the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in London 2016.
Evolving architectures of FinTech
Learn how new FinTech architectures and startups are creating novel types of business models in Africa and Asia, where there are far fewer traditional banks, and in Europe and the US, where financial institutions generally avoid the market for small business loans.
Bla bla microservices bla bla
Jonas Bonér looks at microservices from the perspective of first principles, distilling it to its essence and putting it within the context of distributed systems.
Learning
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Developing reactive microservices
Markus Eisele walks you through the creation of a complete reactive microservices-based system.
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Shared nothing architectures: Giving Hadoop's data processing frameworks scalability and fault tolerance
A look at the tools and patterns for accessing and processing data in Hadoop.
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Microservices for Java developers
Learn how to build scalable, adaptive, complex systems that help your business adjust to rapidly changing competitive markets.
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12 patterns for hypermedia service architecture
Open source software is everywhere, but do you know where to start if you want to contribute, convince your manager your next project should be open source, or avoid recreating the wheel?
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12 Agile principles
This chapter from Learning Agile lays out the 12 principles that every agile practitioner should use when working on a software project team.
Microservices antipatterns and pitfalls
Author Mark Richards walks you through the 10 most common microservice anti-patterns and pitfalls, and provides solutions for avoiding them.
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Events
Software Architecture Conference San Francisco
November 13-16, 2016
San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, CA
Engineering the Future of Software
Sessions
Session archive
The evolution of evolutionary architecture
Rebecca Parsons looks at common software architecture practices and explains how our use of them has evolved.
What I learned about architecture from running marathons
Ted Malaska explains how long hours of training, blisters, and shin splints relate to life-changing lessons in software architecture.
From static to future-proof: Enterprise architectures in the age of the customer
Thomas Cozzolino highlights the importance of the developer experience, API-first thinking, common data models, and enterprise ecosystems, amidst the backdrop of growing customer expectations.
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Let's make the pain visible
Janelle Klein outlines the Idea Flow Learning Framework, a strategy for measuring the friction in developer experiences that makes the problems visible.
People
Neal Ford
Neal is Director, Software Architect, and Meme Wrangler at ThoughtWorks, a global IT consultancy with an exclusive focus on end-to-end software development and delivery. Before joining ThoughtWorks, Neal was the Chief Technology Officer at The DSW Group, Ltd., a nationally recognized training and de...
Mark Richards
Mark Richards is an experienced hands-on software architect involved in the architecture, design, and implementation of Microservices Architectures, Service Oriented Architectures, and distributed sys...
Raffi Krikorian
Raffi's expertise lies in taking things apart and putting them back together in interesting ways. He's the author of TiVo Hacks: 100 Industrial Strength Tips and Tools, a co-creator of Internet Zero, ...
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