Fundamentals of Software Architecture
Thoughtworks Technology Podcast
Thoughtworks
4.5 • 58 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Rebecca Parsons talks to Neal Ford and Mark Richards about their new book that promises to become the definitive guide to software architecture.
The book provides a concise overview on what's needed to become a software architect.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the ThoughtWorks Tech podcast. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm here today with the authors of a new book called Fundamentals of Software Architecture. |
| 0:16.7 | And so Neil and Mark, would you please introduce yourselves? |
| 0:20.9 | Sure. Hi, Rebecca. please introduce yourselves? Sure. |
| 0:21.7 | Hi, Rebecca. |
| 0:22.7 | My name is Mark Richards. |
| 0:24.3 | I'm an independent consultant and a hands-on software architect. |
| 0:27.6 | I've been in the industry for almost 35 years now, 25 of those as a software architect. |
| 0:33.4 | And I'm the founder of Developer2 Architect.com, a website I created several years ago as a give-back website to host a lot of references, books, videos, and lessons about software architecture. |
| 0:47.0 | And you may recognize my voice. I'm one of the regular hosts of the ThoughtWorks Technology podcast, but I've figuratively moved over to the guest |
| 0:58.4 | chair today because I'm also one of the co-authors of the fundamentals of software architecture |
| 1:03.2 | book. I'm Neil Ford and I work at ThoughtWorks as doing software architecture |
| 1:10.9 | and a variety of other things within ThoughtWorks. |
| 1:14.3 | And my name is Rebecca Parsons. |
| 1:15.9 | I am one of the regular hosts, |
| 1:17.6 | and I am the chief technology officer for ThoughtWorks. |
| 1:20.8 | And so now let's get started. |
| 1:24.7 | The book is called Fundamentals of Software Architecture. |
| 1:31.2 | Does the world really need another book on software architecture? |
| 1:33.1 | Well, that's a really good question. And we actually broached this question several years ago, almost exactly to the month, |
| 1:40.2 | because he and I both realized we had a lot of material that overlap that covered some interesting parts of the software architecture ecosystem. |
| 1:51.0 | But we didn't have a really good idea at the time what a fundamentals book or even course would look like. |
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