Software Architecture

Martin Fowler, Chief Scientist, ThoughtWorks

Martin Fowler discusses what is software architecture and why it matters, and application versus enterprise architecture.

Joel Spolsky, CEO, Stack Overflow

Joel emphasizes the importance of solving useful problems, rather than fixating on interesting architectures.

Will Larson, Foundation Engineering, Stripe

Will documents some of the scalability architecture lessons he's learned while working on systems at Yahoo! and Digg, around load balancing, caching, off-line processing, and a platform layer.

James Pasley, (Fellow) Software Development Engineer, Workday

Lara Hogan, VP, Engineering, Kickstarter

A VP of engineering describes Meetup's process of identifying their architecture principles: build for change, build for understanding, and build Meetup.

James Hamilton, VP & Distinguished Engineer, Amazon Web Services (AWS)