Mark Richards
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Modern Enterprise Architecture Practices
Becoming effective as an enterprise architect Course outcomes Understand how enterprise architecture fits within an organization Learn why most enterprise architecture efforts fail Discover modern approaches to enterprise architecture and why ...
July 6, 2023
Building Distributed Systems Using Sagas
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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Mark Richards is an experienced hands-on software architect involved in the architecture, design, and implementation of Microservices Architectures, Service Oriented Architectures, and distributed systems in J2EE and other technologies. He has been involved in the software industry since 1983, and has significant experience and expertise in application, integration, and enterprise architecture. Mark served as the President of the New England Java Users Group from 1999 thru 2003. He is the author of numerous technical books and videos, including "Software Architecture Fundamentals" (OâReilly video), "Enterprise Messaging" (OâReilly video), "Java Message Service 2nd Edition" (OâReilly), and 97 Thinks Every Software Architect Should Know (O'Reilly). Mark has a masters degree in computer science and numerous architect and developer certifications from IBM, Sun, The Open Group, and BEA. He is a regular conference speaker at the No Fluff Just Stuff (NFJS) Symposium Series, and has spoken at over 100 conferences and user groups around the world on a variety of enterprise-related technical topics.When he is not working Mark can usually be found hiking in the White Mountains or along the Appalachian Trail.