Mark Richards and Neal Ford Reflect on Software Architecture: The Hard Parts

About this episode

Carter and Nathan discuss software architecture with authors Mark Richards and Neal Ford.

In this special episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan are joined by Mark Richards and Neal Ford, authors of Software Architecture: The Hard Parts! Join the official Book Overflow Discord! https://discord.gg/ZwS2fqW7ZZ -- Want to talk with Carter or Nathan? Book a coaching session! -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Carter https://www.joinleland.com/coach/carter-m-1 Nathan https://www.joinleland.com/coach/nathan-t-2 -- Books Mentioned in this Episode -- Note: As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. ---------------------------------------------------------- Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures by Neal Ford, Mark Richards, Pramod Sadalage, and Zhamak Dehghani https://amzn.to/43cb833 (Paid Link) ---------------- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5kj6DLCEWR5nHShlSYJI5L Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/book-overflow/id1745257325 X: https://x.com/bookoverflowpod Carter on X: https://x.com/cartermorgan Nathan's Functionally Imperative: www.functionallyimperative.com ---------------- Book Overflow is a podcast for software engineers, by software engineers…

People in this episode

Hosts: Carter Morgan, Nathan Toups

Guests: Mark Richards, Neal Ford

Topics covered

• software architecture
• technical books
• distributed architectures
• software engineering
• trade-off analyses

Keywords

• software architecture
• technical books
• distributed systems
• trade-offs
• engineering

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Amazon, Book Overflow, Discord, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Functionally Imperative

Books & works: Software Architecture: The Hard Parts

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