Mark Richards is an experienced, hands-on software architect involved in the architecture, design, and implementation of microservices architectures and other distributed systems in a variety of technologies. He has been in the software industry since 1983 and has significant experience and expertise in application, integration, and enterprise architecture. Mark is the founder of DeveloperToArchitect.com, a free website devoted to helping developers in the journey to becoming a software architect. In addition to hands-on consulting and training, Mark has authored numerous technical books, including his three latest books Fundamentals of Software Architecture, Software Architecture: The Hard Parts, and Head First Software Architecture that he co-authored with Neal Ford. Mark has spoken at hundreds of conferences and user groups around the world on a variety of enterprise-related technical topics.
Microservices is a unique architectural style that promotes the concept of a bounded context, where each separately deployed service owns it own data. This means that other services that need your data cannot access it directly-they must ask the service for the data. In this session you'll learn about 5 different techniques for accessing data from other services you no longer have access to, and d...
A common saying by software architects is “that’s an implementation detail”. All too often we treat software architecture and implementation as two separate things, where implementation is something that happens once a software architecture is defined. In fact, it’s the other way around: software architecture should be viewed as a first draft, where implementation reveals more details and refineme...
You select the most appropriate architecture style, you make effective architecture decisions, yet somehow the architecture of your system doesn’t work—it fails to meet your scalability requirements, it’s hard to change, it’s hard to extend, and it isn’t aligned with the new business direction. Why? Your organization has failed at architectural alignment. Software architecture is much more than th...