About this episode

Dan Clarke interviews Chris Woody Woodruff about a simplicity-first approach to software architecture.

In this episode, I was joined by Chris “Woody” Woodruff to chat about a simplicity-first approach to software architecture. Chris has a book coming out on this topic, and we discussed why simplicity should be the default. For a full list of show notes, or to add comments - please see the website here

People in this episode

Host: Dan Clarke

Guest: Chris Woody Woodruff

Topics covered

• software architecture
• simplicity
• technology
• design principles
• book discussion

Keywords

• simplicity
• software architecture
• technology
• design
• book

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