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Our book “Software Architecture Metrics: Case Studies to Improve the Quality of Your Architecture” is published!

Apiumhub

Neal Ford – Author of the book “Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change” Neal Ford 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. Rene Weiss is a CTO at Finabro.

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Software Architect Role, Skills, and Impact on Product Success

Altexsoft

There are dozens of definitions for a software or technical architect, but in most general terms a person holding this position drives all critical decisions about the organization of the software system. This tech leader makes sure that a systems architecture used by a company supports its strategy and helps in achieving business goals.

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Journey to Event Driven – Part 4: Four Pillars of Event Streaming Microservices

Confluent

With event-first design, the data becomes the API which, like any production system, needs to support change and evolution (i.e., Furthermore, in embracing loose coupling, we inherit a clean separation of concerns (SoC) , which provides the ability to develop and operate various aspects of the system architecture independently.