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Architecture as code with Neal Ford and Mark Richards
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Birgitta Böckeler
Birgitta is a software developer, architect and technical leader with 20+ years of experience helping teams and organizations break down complexity and find new perspectives to look at their systems.
James Lewis
James is a programmer and Director at Thoughtworks based in the UK. He is an internationally recognized expert on software architecture and design and on its intersection with organizational design and lean product development.
Kief Morris
Kief is a leader in evolving technologies, practices, and workflows for cloud, infrastructure as code, and platforms to support continuous software delivery focused on business value and measurable outcomes.
Unmesh Joshi
Unmesh is a seasoned technology leader and author with 25+ years of experience. As an ardent enthusiast of software architecture, he firmly believes that today's tech landscape requires a profound understanding of distributed
systems principles.
Neal Ford
Neal is a leading voice in the software development community. He is the author of several influential books and speaks at conferences worldwide on topics like continuous delivery, evolutionary architecture and developer productivity.
Books by our Distinguished Engineers
Book
Patterns of Distributed Systems
Distributed systems are everywhere in software. But their increasing ubiquity doesn’t mean they’re getting easier to design and build. Their complexity poses significant challenges for developers. That’s why design patterns are so powerful — they provide frameworks for developers to tackle common problems regardless of their specific implementation. This book presents a diverse range of patterns for distributed system design — covering everything from data replication and partitioning, distributed time to cluster management. It's essential reading for developers working with distributed systems and or for anyone looking for a deeper understanding of how these distributed systems work and how they can be approached.
Book
Infrastucture as code
As technology estates increase in both size and complexity, the argument for infrastructure as code has never been stronger. In this new edition of Infrastructure as Code, Kief Morris expands the issues explored in earlier editions even further, demonstrating how, when implemented effectively, such an approach can address a range of urgent business challenges, from strategic adaptation to cost management. Whether you're a seasoned software architect or a developer increasingly finding themselves in contact with architectural concerns, this new edition of a popular book should be an essential part of your reading list.
Book
Software Architecture: The Hard Parts
This book provides techniques to help you discover and weigh the trade-offs as you confront the issues you face as an architect. It investigates why architecture is so difficult and provides proven mechanisms to address these complex problems and make them understandable. Co-authors Neal Ford, Mark Richards, Pramod Sadalage, and Zhamak Dehghani examine everything from how to determine service granularity, manage workflows and orchestration, manage and decouple contracts, and manage distributed transactions to how to optimize operational characteristics, such as scalability, elasticity, and performance.
