Neal Ford
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September 4, 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 ...
September 17, 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 ...
September 19, October 10 & 24, 2024
Architectural Katas: Fall 2024
Participants in Architectural Katas, moderated by Neal Ford and Mark Richards, work together in small groups of their choosing to solve a challenge an actual organization is facing. Everyone gets the ...
October 9, 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 ...
October 14, 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 ...
October 17, 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 ...
October 21, 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 ...
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Bio
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.