Neal Ford

Software Architecture Fundamentals, Part 1: From Developer to Architect

Part 1 of this workshop focuses on the many elements required to make the journey from developer to architect, covering process topics like the impact of Continuous Delivery on architecture, technical subjects like application, integration, and enterprise architecture, and soft skills. While we can't make you an architect overnight, we can start you on the journey with a map and a good compass.

Software Architecture Fundamentals, Part 2: Deeper Dive

Part two of this workshop takes a deeper dive in application, integration, and enterprise architecture topics, including evaluating architectures via Agile ATAM, the impacts of continuous delivery on architecture, comparing architectures, SOA, SOAP, and REST, integration hubs, and enterprise architecture approaches and strategies.

Software Architecture Fundamentals, Part 3 (hands-on): Architectural Katas

To fully leverage knowledge, you need application. Part three of this workshop uses the public domain Architectureal Katas exercise to apply learnings from the first two parts.

Continuous Delivery Workshop, part 1 of 3: Deployment Pipelines

The first part of the Continuous Delivery workshop covers the differences between continuous integration, continuous deployment, and continuous delivery). It also introduces the deployment pipeline_, along with usage, patterns, and anti-patterns. This part concludes with some applied engineering principles.

Continuous Delivery Workshop, part 2 of 3: Testing, Synergistic Practices, and Deployment

Continuous Delivery relies on a variety of interlocking engineering practices to work efficiently; this session covers three related topics. First, I cover the role of testing and the testing quadrant. Second, I specifically cover version control usage and offer alternatives to feature branching like toggle and branch by abstraction. Third, I describe some incremental release strategies, along with their impact on other stages of project lifecycle.

Continuous Delivery Workshop, part 3 of 3: Infrastructure and Data

Two big stumbling blocks for Continuous Delivery adaptation are interactions with operations and the keepers of data. First in this session, I cover operations, DevOps, and programmatic control of infrastructure. Second, I discuss how to incorporate databases and DBA's into the Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery process.

Hypothesis/Data Driven Development using Feature Toggles

Hypothesis and data driven development ties together current thinking about requirements, Continuous Delivery, DevOps, modern architecture, and engineering techniques to help rethink building software.

Building Evolutionary Architectures Workshop

This workshop highlights the ideas from the forthcoming Building Evolutionary Architectures, showing how to build architectures that evolve gracefully over time.

Building Evolutionary Architectures Workshop

This workshop highlights the ideas from the forthcoming Building Evolutionary Architectures, showing how to build architectures that evolve gracefully over time.

Clojure Workshop

In an increasingly crowded field of languages, Clojure stands alone. It is a dynamic, functional, high performance dialect of Lisp that runs on both the JVM and CLR. The creator cast aside assumptions from both the Lisp and Java communities to create a remarkable language implementation.

Clojure Workshop

In an increasingly crowded field of languages, Clojure stands alone. It is a dynamic, functional, high performance dialect of Lisp that runs on both the JVM and CLR. The creator cast aside assumptions from both the Lisp and Java communities to create a remarkable language implementation.

Documenting and Presenting Software Architectures

This session covers two critical soft skills for architects:

• creating clear, concise documentation of software architecture, both structure and decisions
• presenting architectural ideas as clearly as possible

Build Your Own Technology Radar Workshop for Architects

A Technology Radar is a tool that forces you to organize and think about near term future technology decisions, both for you and your company. This talk discusses using the radar for personal breadth development, architectural guidance, and governance.