Architecture: The hard parts (Day 2)

Neal Ford (ThoughtWorks), Zhamak Dehghani (ThoughtWorks)

Location: Hall A4

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Who is this presentation for?

You're an architect.

Level

Intermediate

Description

Outline

Part I: Pulling things apart

Components as architecture building blocks
Domain partitioning
Choosing monolithic versus distributed
Architecture quantum
Building blocks for distributed architectures
Broker/choreography
Mediator/orchestration
The value of asynchronicity
Synchronous versus asynchronous
Asynchronicity patterns
Workflow patterns
Data abstraction patterns
Why modularity is important to architects

Part II: Putting them back together

Contract management
Fitness function for contract maintenance
Orchestration and workflow
Sagas
Data caching

Part III: Best practices

Supervisor consumer pattern
Producer control flow
Overflow pattern
Thread delegate
Workflow event pattern
When to orchestrate versus consolidate versus choreography

Prerequisite knowledge

A basic understanding of modern architecture styles

What you'll learn

Understand trade-off analysis for architectural granularity, messaging styles in distributed architectures, and how to handle data in service-based architectures

Neal Ford

ThoughtWorks

Neal Ford is a director, software architect, and meme wrangler at ThoughtWorks, a global IT consultancy that thinks disruptively to deliver technology to address the toughest challenges, all while seeking to revolutionize the IT industry and create positive social change. Neal focuses on designing and building large-scale enterprise applications. He’s an internationally recognized expert on software development and delivery, especially in the intersection of Agile engineering techniques and software architecture. Neal has authored magazine articles, seven books (and counting), and dozens of video presentations and has spoken at hundreds of developers conferences worldwide on the topics of software architecture, continuous delivery, functional programming, and cutting-edge software innovations. Check out his website at Nealford.com. He welcomes feedback and can be reached at nford@thoughtworks.com.

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Zhamak Dehghani

ThoughtWorks

Zhamak Dehghani is a principal technology consultant at ThoughtWorks, focusing on distributed systems architecture and digital platform strategy in the enterprise. She’s a member of the company’s Technology Advisory Board and contributes to the creation of ThoughtWorks’s Technology Radar.