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April 25, 2024
Software Architecture Characteristics: Defining, Discovering, and Protecting Architecture
Defining, Discovering, and Protecting Architecture Software systems consist of designs to both satisfy requirements and architecture characteristics, also known as non-functional requirements. Identify and preserving architecture characteristics is a key responsibility ...
April 26, 2024
Communication Styles for Distributed Architectures and Microservices
Join expert Neal Ford to learn the foundations of distributed architecture communication and discover how they apply to microservices. You’ll explore a new measure, the architecture quantum, to help analyze and ...
May 3, 2024
Comparing Software Architectures
Join experts Neal Ford and Mark Richards for a comparison of various aspects of the same architectural solution, developed independently by isolated teams. Each team’s solution highlights the fact that there ...
May 7, 2024
Iterative Architecture by Example
Join experts Mark Richards and Neal Ford to discover the tools and techniques that allow architects to perform iterative design on new and existing systems. You’ll learn how to tackle difficult ...
May 8, 2024
Software architecture by example
In this four-hour intensive course, Mark Richards and Neal Ford—software architects and the authors of numerous books and videos, including the popular video training course series Software Architecture Fundamentals—lead you on ...
May 9, 2024
What’s New in Software Architecture: Designing Tomorrow’s Data Architecture with Pramod Sadalage
Ask Neal Ford and Pramod Sadalage your questions around software architecture Join Neal Ford and his guest Pramod Sadalage, director at Thoughtworks, to get an expert perspective on what the future ...
May 23, 2024
Tools for Making Major Changes to Architecture
Expert Neal Ford walks you through patterns and anti-patterns, techniques, engineering practices, and other factors that enable architects to make major changes to architectures. You’ll explore several metrics and measures that ...
June 5, 2024
Software Architecture Superstream: Architecture Patterns for Resilient Systems
Patterns and approaches to support high-volume systems Modern software architecture for high-demand systems must manage millions of requests per second (think Amazon on Black Friday). The cloud doesn't guarantee resiliency, so ...
June 13, 2024
Architecture for Modern Engineering Practices
Neal Ford leads a deep dive into the intersection of the architect's role and the engineering practices at the heart of continuous delivery, covering continuous integration, deployment pipelines and how to ...
June 17, 2024
Architecture foundations: Styles and patterns
Join experts Neal Ford and Raju Gandhi for a survey of architecture patterns, applied through modern engineering practices and perspectives. For each pattern, you’ll learn the history, philosophy, rationale, topology, optimum ...
June 26, 2024
Designing Distributed Systems
Join coauthors Mark Richards and Neal Ford to get expert guidance on how to analyze trade-offs in these situations. Based on the book Software Architecture: The Hard Parts, the course covers ...
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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 development firm.
Neal has a degree in Computer Science from Georgia State University specializing in languages and compilers and a minor in mathematics specializing in statistical analysis. He is also the designer and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, and video presentations. He is also the author of 6 books, including the most recent Presentation Patterns and Functional Thinking. Given his degree, Neal is a bit of a language geek, with affections including but not limited to Ruby, Clojure, Java, Groovy, JavaScript, Scala and C#/.NET. His primary consulting focus is the design and construction of large-scale enterprise applications. Neal is an internationally acclaimed speaker, having spoken at over 300 developer conferences worldwide, delivering more than 2000 presentations. If you have an insatiable curiosity about Neal, visit his web site at nealford.com. He welcomes feedback and can be reached at nford@thoughtworks.com.