Mark Richards
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December 5, 2024
Mastering Patterns in Event-Driven Architecture
Unfortunately, with all this power comes a fair amount of complexity. Building an event-driven architecture is hard—really hard. Expert software architect Mark Richards takes you through the advanced design patterns that ...
December 6, 2024
Comparing Software Architectures
Learn how to make the right choices for your architecture problems by seeing 10 excellent—and different—solutions to the problem posed to teams taking part in the 2020 Architectural Katas. Join experts ...
December 12, 2024
Iterative Architecture by Example
What architects need are tools that allow them to create candidate designs, then iterate on the design and evaluate it so that they can work their way toward better solutions. Join ...
January 13, 2025
Software architecture by example
While you can learn a great deal about practices, patterns, coupling, cohesion, and all the other facets of software architecture, you don’t really understand them until you put them in practice. ...
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Bio
Mark Richards is an experienced hands-on software architect involved in the architecture, design, and implementation of Microservices Architectures, Service Oriented Architectures, and distributed systems in J2EE and other technologies. He has been involved in the software industry since 1983, and has significant experience and expertise in application, integration, and enterprise architecture. Mark served as the President of the New England Java Users Group from 1999 thru 2003. He is the author of numerous technical books and videos, including "Software Architecture Fundamentals" (Oâââ‰â¢Reilly video), "Enterprise Messaging" (Oâââ‰â¢Reilly video), "Java Message Service 2nd Edition" (Oâââ‰â¢Reilly), and 97 Thinks Every Software Architect Should Know (O'Reilly). Mark has a masters degree in computer science and numerous architect and developer certifications from IBM, Sun, The Open Group, and BEA. He is a regular conference speaker at the No Fluff Just Stuff (NFJS) Symposium Series, and has spoken at over 100 conferences and user groups around the world on a variety of enterprise-related technical topics.When he is not working Mark can usually be found hiking in the White Mountains or along the Appalachian Trail.