Software Architecture Hour: Choosing Architecture Styles with Mark Richards
Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Join us for a special conversation on how to choose an architecture style with Neal Ford and expert software architect Mark Richards. They’ll go deep into the difference between patterns and styles, explain how understanding styles will help you to make effective architecture decisions, and discuss the finer points of evaluating the trade-offs for different styles.
This is your chance to ask Neal and Mark anything you want about architecture or their own career journeys. They’ll spend a few minutes covering the trends in security that are influencing architecture, then tell you what you need to know to stay ahead of the curve.
What you’ll learn and how you can apply it
- Understand how to choose the right architecture style for your use case
- See what’s coming next with software architecture
This live event is for you because...
- You want the chance to ask Neal Ford and Mark Richards your questions about how to choose the best architecture style for your organization.
- You’re interested in how architecture styles will impact your business architecture.
Prerequisites
- Come with your questions for Neal Ford and Mark Richards
- Have a pen and paper handy to capture notes, insights, and inspiration
Recommended follow-up:
- Read Fundamentals of Software Architecture (book)
- Read “Using Styles and Patterns” (chapter 11 in Software Systems Architecture: Working with Stakeholders Using Viewpoints and Perspectives)
- Attend the Software Architecture Superstream: Mastering Your Microservices Stack (May 19)
- Watch Software Architecture Fundamentals, second edition (video course, 9h 36m)
- Attend Architecture: The Hard Parts (live online training course with Mark Richards and Neal Ford)
- Attend Architecture Foundations: Styles, Patterns, and Trade-Offs (live online training course with Neal Ford)
Schedule
The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.
May 6, 2021, at 7:00am PT / 10:00am ET
- Introduction and presentation (15 minutes)
- Interactive discussion and Q&A (45 minutes)
Your Hosts and Guests
Neal Ford
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’s authored several books, a number of magazine articles, and dozens of video presentations (including a video on improving technical presentations) and spoken at hundreds of developer conferences worldwide. His topics of interest include software architecture, continuous delivery, functional programming, and cutting-edge software innovations. Check out his website, Nealford.com
Mark Richards
Mark Richards is an experienced, hands-on software architect involved in the architecture, design, and implementation of microservices architectures and other distributed systems in a variety of technologies. He has been in the software industry since 1983 and has significant experience and expertise in application, integration, and enterprise architecture. Mark is the founder of DeveloperToArchitect.com, a free website devoted to helping developers in the journey to becoming a software architect. In addition to hands-on consulting, Mark has authored numerous technical books and videos, including his two latest books Fundamentals of Software Architecture and Software Architecture: The Hard Parts that he co-authored with Neal Ford. Mark has spoken at hundreds of conferences and user groups around the world on a variety of enterprise-related technical topics.