Data Architecture for Software Architects

About the Author(s)

Pramod Sadalage is Distinguished Engineer 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.

Premanand Chandrasekaran is a technology leader and change agent with a solid track record of leading large technology teams and helping businesses deliver mission critical problems in a manner that enriches the lives of its stakeholders and end users alike while exhibiting high internal and external quality. He is passionate about the application of iterative methods and the use of open source software to reliably and rapidly realize value. Over the past two decades, he has had the pleasure of helping a variety of clients and domains ranging from financial services, online retailers, education, healthcare startups among ...