Head First Software Architecture: A Learner's Guide to Architectural Thinking

Raju Gandhi is a software craftsman with almost 20 years of hands-on experience scoping, architecting, designing, and implementing full stack applications. A full-time consultant, published author, internationally known public speaker, and trainer, he provides a 360-degree view of the development cycle. He's proficient in a variety of programming languages and paradigms, experienced with software development methodologies, and an expert in infrastructure and tooling. His long pursued hermeticism across the development stack by championing immutability during development (with languages like Clojure), deployment (leveraging tools like Docker and Kubernetes), and provisioning and configuration via code (using toolkits like Ansible, Terraform, Packer, and "everything as code"). In his spare time, you'll find Raju reading, playing with technology, or spending time with his wonderful (and significantly better) other half. Mark Richards is an experienced hands-on software architect involved in the architecture, design, and implementation of microservices architectures, service-oriented architectures, and distributed systems. He's been in the software industry since 1983 and has significant experience and expertise in application, integration, and enterprise architecture. He's the author of numerous O'Reilly technical books and videos, including several books on microservices, the Software Architecture Fundamentals video series, the Enterprise Messaging video series, and Java Message Service, second edition, and was a contributing author to 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know. A speaker and trainer, he's given talks on a variety of enterprise-related technical topics at hundreds of conferences and user groups around the world. Neal Ford is a director, software architect, and meme wrangler at Thoughtworks, a software company and a community of passionate, purpose-led individuals who think disruptively to deliver technology to address the toughest challenges, all while seeking to revolutionize the IT industry and create positive social change. He's an internationally recognized expert on software development and delivery, especially in the intersection of Agile engineering techniques and software architecture. Neal's authored 9 books and counting, a number of magazine articles, and dozens of video presentations (including a video on improving technical presentations) and spoken at hundreds of developer conferences worldwide. His topics of interest include software architecture, continuous delivery, functional programming, and cutting-edge software innovations. Check out his website, Nealford.com.