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In The Brain of Simon Brown: The Frustrated Architect
The Frustrated Architect

The IT industry is either taking giant leaps ahead or it's in deep turmoil. On the one hand we're pushing forward, reinventing the way that we build software and striving for craftsmanship at every turn. On the other though, we're continually forgetting the good of the past and software teams are still screwing up on an alarmingly regular basis.

Software architecture plays a pivotal role in the delivery of successful software yet it's frustratingly neglected by many teams. Whether performed by one person or shared amongst the team, the architecture role exists on even the most agile of teams yet the balance of up front and evolutionary thinking often reflects aspiration rather than reality.

If we really do want to succeed, we need to get over our fascination with shiny new things and starting asking some questions. Does agile need architecture or does architecture actually need agile? Have we forgotten more about good software design than we've learnt in recent years? Is emergent design really just about foolishly hoping for the best? Does any of this matter if we're not fostering the software architects of tomorrow? How do we move from frustration to serenity?

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Simon Brown's software architecture for developers, April 23rd 2012

This course is about broadening your software development skills and has been designed to take full advantage of the technical knowledge that you already have. Simon Brown's software architecture development course will make you more 'architecturally aware', and will help you to build better software. It's about pragmatic and real-world software architecture rather than academic "ivory tower" software architecture and is presented by Simon Brown. To find out more, please go here

Greg Young's CQRS, Domain Events, Event Sourcing and how to apply DDD, March 28th 2012

This 3-day CQRS course covers Domain Events, Event Sourcing and how to apply DDD. Join to learn all about system building and architectures with Domain Driven Design. The largest problem many run into with Domain Driven Design is in getting the abstract concepts implemented in a concrete way. Many of the stereotypical architectures people use actually make it impossible to apply DDD. Greg's course will help you avoid this. To find out more, please go here

Greg Young's Super Intensive CQRS Immersion Weekend, March 24th 2012

This super intensive CQRS Immersion weekend is not for the fainthearted. If you like to be deeply immersed in learning, thinking and discussing Domain Events, Event Sourcing and how to apply DDD, this weekend will be the greatest fun! Join Greg and other die-hards for 2 twelve-hour days - all about system building and architectures with Domain Driven Design. The largest problem many run into with Domain Driven Design is in getting the abstract concepts implemented in a concrete way. Many of the stereotypical architectures people use actually make it impossible to apply DDD. Greg will help you avoid this by teaching you all about Command Query Separation (CQRS), Domain Events, Event Sourcing and how to effectively apply DDD within an organisation. To find out more, please go here

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Eric Evans Domain Driven Design Hands-On Immersion Workshop, February 13th 2012

This 4-day Domain Driven Design Workshop -- delivered by DDD expert Alberto Brandolini -- will show you how to put the domain model to work. Finding and exploiting domain models is key to success with large software systems. By cultivating a strong connection between the language used by developers, appropriate models can dramatically accelerate the process of translating customer needs into working software. Strong domain modeling coupled with programming best practices such as exploiting design patterns, refactoring, and test-driven development result in a principled yet practical approach to the development of large software systems. Come and learn how to strike a healthy balance between digging into your subject matter and addressing technological issues. To find out more, please go here

Brian Sletten's Semantic Web Technologies Bootcamp, March 26th 2012

Brian Sletten's five day Semantic Web Technologies Bootcamp provides a broad, example-driven and compelling vision of computing's future. Organisations are struggling with data integration solutions that operate at the wrong level of abstraction or are shackled to legacy systems with no idea of how to modernize incrementally. Their service-oriented architectures decompose business processes into services without the ability to identify and protect the information that flows through these services. In this course, you will learn how the technical and business value of Web semantics is available and useful today behind firewalls as well as on the public Web.
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Udi Dahan's Advanced Distributed Systems Design with SOA, April 16th 2012

This very intensive 5-day workshop will help you take the pain out of designing large-scale distributed systems. New technologies make it easier to comply with today’s communications and security standards, but they won't magically provide you with a robust and scalable system. Join Udi for a course packed with the wisdom of companies like SUN, Amazon and eBay. Tried-and-true theories and fallacies will be shown, helping you to avoid costly mistakes. Communications patterns like publish/subscribe and correlated one-way request/response will be demonstrated, in conjunction with advanced object-oriented state management practices for long-running workflows. If you enjoy deep architectural discussion, join! To find out more, please go here

Simon Brown's Enterprise Software Developer, June 18th 2012

This 4-day practical course is about building software within an enterprise environment in a structured, lightweight and pragmatic way. It covers the complete end-to-end software development process; from planning, gathering requirements and software architecture through to the effective use of source code control, automated unit testing, continuous integration and load testing.To find out more, please go here


ABOUT SIMON BROWN
Simon is an independent consultant based in Jersey, the founder of the Coding the Architecture blog and either a software architect who codes or a software developer who understands architecture.
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