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July 25, 2024
Software Architecture Characteristics: Defining, Discovering, and Protecting Architecture
Defining, Discovering, and Protecting Architecture Software systems consist of designs to both satisfy requirements and architecture characteristics, also known as non-functional requirements. Identify and preserving architecture characteristics is a key responsibility ...
August 1, 2024
What’s New in Software Architecture: How Generative AI Will Transform Software Delivery with Birgitta Böckeler
Ask Neal Ford and Birgitta Böckeler your questions around software architecture and generative AI Join Neal Ford and his guest Birgitta Böckeler, global lead for AI-assisted software delivery at Thoughtworks, to ...
August 5, 2024
Tools for Making Major Changes to Architecture
Expert Neal Ford walks you through patterns and anti-patterns, techniques, engineering practices, and other factors that enable architects to make major changes to architectures. You’ll explore several metrics and measures that ...
August 7, 2024
Iterative Architecture by Example
Join experts Mark Richards and Neal Ford to discover the tools and techniques that allow architects to perform iterative design on new and existing systems. You’ll learn how to tackle difficult ...
August 14, 2024
Software Architecture Superstream: Streaming and Event-Driven Architecture for Data-Driven Systems
Building flexible and scalable systems Data streaming and event-driven architectures are inherently flexible and scalable, allowing organizations to build systems that manage large amounts of data based on actual business usage ...
August 19, 2024
Software architecture by example
In this four-hour intensive course, Mark Richards and Neal Ford—software architects and the authors of numerous books and videos, including the popular video training course series Software Architecture Fundamentals—lead you on ...
August 28, 2024
Comparing Software Architectures
Join experts Neal Ford and Mark Richards for a comparison of various aspects of the same architectural solution, developed independently by isolated teams. Each team’s solution highlights the fact that there ...
September 4, 2024
Architecture for Modern Engineering Practices
Neal Ford leads a deep dive into the intersection of the architect's role and the engineering practices at the heart of continuous delivery, covering continuous integration, deployment pipelines and how to ...
September 17, 2024
Designing Distributed Systems
Join coauthors Mark Richards and Neal Ford to get expert guidance on how to analyze trade-offs in these situations. Based on the book Software Architecture: The Hard Parts, the course covers ...
September 19, October 10 & 24, 2024
Architectural Katas: Fall 2024
Participants in Architectural Katas, moderated by Neal Ford and Mark Richards, work together in small groups of their choosing to solve a challenge an actual organization is facing. Everyone gets the ...
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Neal is Director, Software Architect, and Meme Wrangler at ThoughtWorks, a global IT consultancy with an exclusive focus on end-to-end software development and delivery. Before joining ThoughtWorks, Neal was the Chief Technology Officer at The DSW Group, Ltd., a nationally recognized training and development firm.
Neal has a degree in Computer Science from Georgia State University specializing in languages and compilers and a minor in mathematics specializing in statistical analysis. He is also the designer and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, and video presentations. He is also the author of 6 books, including the most recent Presentation Patterns and Functional Thinking. Given his degree, Neal is a bit of a language geek, with affections including but not limited to Ruby, Clojure, Java, Groovy, JavaScript, Scala and C#/.NET. His primary consulting focus is the design and construction of large-scale enterprise applications. Neal is an internationally acclaimed speaker, having spoken at over 300 developer conferences worldwide, delivering more than 2000 presentations. If you have an insatiable curiosity about Neal, visit his web site at nealford.com. He welcomes feedback and can be reached at nford@thoughtworks.com.