Neal is a Distinguished Engineer at Thoughtworks, a software company and a community of passionate, purpose-led individuals, delivering technology to address the toughest challenges, all while seeking to revolutionize the IT industry and create positive social change. He speaks at many conferences.
Aspect-oriented Programming (AOP) defined much of the plumbing of modern software frameworks like Spring – it defines a way to address cross-cutting concerns that are orthogonal to the object hierarchy/domain design; the classic example is a way to enforce logging across an object hierarchy. Architects also need to address cross-cutting concerns: operations like monitoring, logging, and others; th...
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...