System Design Fundamentals: Righting Software

• What you are doing wrong now and why
• The correct and only way to design anything
• The architect's challenge
• Design techniques to ease the challenge
• Design Don'ts

This densely packed course promises to change the way you think about software architecture and design. Master software architect Juval Lowy argues that the majority of software systems are designed in literally the worst possible way. Juval starts by challenging common design practices like functional decomposition and domain decomposition before presenting his proven approach to system analysis and design that focuses on volatility to decompose a system into its comprising services.

Juval highlights universal design principles using examples from software and non-software systems alike. This course will also teach you how to overcome the real hurdles architects face pursuing volatility-based decomposing, as well as simple and practical techniques for identifying areas of volatility, and a structured approach for defining the components of the architecture.

What is this training about, and why is it important?

The training will show how to correctly define the architecture of software systems. With the wrong architecture (which is the norm) the system will be very complex to build, horrendously expensive compared with what it should cost, rife with defects, unable to meet the ever changing requirements, take forever to complete, and will cost so much during maintenance that it will force its owners to abandon it in favor of a new, often even messier solution. In its wake the system will leave broken commitments, demoralized teams, and frustrated customers. You avoid this pain when you design the system properly, and yet the majority of architects simply do not know how to do their job. This session will show participants how righting software can also point them in the right direction to fix not just their system but also their careers.