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Architecture at CraftConf

At Craft Conf, there were some presentations about software architecture. I visited all of them and also searched for this subject in other talks. It was interesting to hear the same concepts from more places and to put together a picture how software architecture looks like in the mind of the presenters of today’s conferences. Stefan Tilkov: Architecture War Stories . It was indeed about weird stories from real life. I wrote down two things: If something is sophisticated, probable you shouldn’t do it. And having many architects is wrong. Many people liked this talk very much but I’m not really interested in real stories. I’m rather interested in the causes behind the stories to be able to avoid situations which head to weird architecture. Luckily for me, other talks were more abstract. The title of Rachel Laycock’s talk contained the very fashionable word combination “Continuous Delivery” beside “Architecture” so I anticipated it will be great, and it was. Rachel came with the same m

Craft Conf Workshop - Gojko Adzic

The day started with a mistake I’ve made. I didn’t check my mailbox accurately and missed the info that workshops aren’t held at the conference venue. I knew that there were some email but I thought it’s redundant and everything is on the homepage. It wasn’t. After all, I managed to track it down and get to the Prezi office in time when the workshop was held. The workshop was about   How to Make Big Impact with Software Products and Projects by Gojko Adzic . We had to form group which was very nice because most people didn’t know each other. We had to come up with an imaginary milestone plan for some kind of a software. It was interesting that the seven groups came up with quite different ideas and every group was able to defend his own viewpoint. One group defended the idea that they didn’t want to touch the legacy code of the system, other team came up with the idea to rewrite the legacy part. The conclusion was, that no ranking can be defined, it’s nearly impossible to judge, wh