Understanding the Basics
By Neal Ford, Mark Richards
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/110000195.do
Extensive video from two known Architects (book Authors: Neal Ford, Mark Richards) coaching about their experience and providing best practices and analyzing study cases in how to become a Software Architect.
It goes straight to the point, why do you want to become an Architect: better income, finally better salaries makes some roles more interesting, and what it requires for it.
It has plenty of good sentences, Some of of them:
- "Often Negotiation and politics skills are more important than Technical Skills"
- "The world best architectures are not the perfect ones, but rather the feasible ones"
- "Design Patterns often have different approach to Functional Thinking"
Also it's discussed: documentation is very important, as seen in different paradigms, and college courses, however, as Agile manifesto mentions: "Working software over comprehensive documentation", then "codebase is the core":
- "our blue print is the source code"
- "compilation is building"
- "software design is expensive"
So, the idea is to reflex about how to build easily and in a cheap way, coding is a complex task and very easily to obtain a wrong artifact.
As seen, this video gives full a great feedback, where many times I had to stop a replay many passages.
In the other hand, there is a great emphasis about soft skills, politics, and how a project can be feasible regarding these features.
At the end, an excellent introduction to different aspects of Software Architecture, including its different specialization, but always keeping a big picture view.
Corollary: Very clever coaching.
