Q&A session with Neal Ford

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Claims concrete enough to act on include treating architecture fitness functions as unit tests for performance, scalability and supply‑chain safety; documenting decisions as lightweight, findable ADRs so future teams reuse the original trade‑off data; recognizing microservices as a persistent trend rather than a fad; exploiting cloud cost shifts (data at rest is cheap, so duplicate rather than over‑normalize); remembering LMAX’s 6 million transactions per second benchmark and experimenting with tools like Lane chain to generate infra code.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 3:22What does "Meme Wrangler" even mean?
3. 6:00What's your favorite definition of Software Architecture?
4. 9:10Is Software Architecture a role, a job, or a skill?
5. 10:53Are we still in summer for the Software Architect role on the seasonal cycle?
6. 15:10What constitutes good architecture?
7. 16:29Are there architecture "smells"?
8. 18:34Is there something like Architecture Refactoring?
9. 20:58What is Evolutionary Architecture?
10. 26:36Is Disposable Architecture still relevant, or has it faded away?
11. 28:18At what point in development do we need to start considering architecture?
12. 31:21The role of Conway's law in Software Architecture.
13. 33:50Compromises in Software Architecture.
14. 37:59What is Architectural Quantum?
15. 41:53How does modern DevOps impact software architecture?
16. 49:29What is the adequate level of architectural documentation for a project?
17. 54:30Do you see practical implications for Software Architecture Documents or ISO standards?
18. 58:04Are we in the Post-Microservices era?
19. 1:00:58Do you think no-code/low-code solutions will supplant developers and architects?
20. 1:03:40What is the future of AI? Can AI tools suggest architectures, for example?
21. 1:07:03Will there be a third and more advanced book in the Software Architecture series: Fundamentals, The Hard Parts?
22. 1:09:46Which books would you recommend for software architects?
23. 1:11:12What are the emerging trends in Software Architecture today?

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