Summary In this conversation, Vaughn Vernon and Udi Dahan discuss various topics related to software architecture, including service-oriented architecture (SOA), event-driven architecture, and sagas. They emphasize the importance of using the right architectural styles and patterns in the right places, rather than over-applying or misapplying them. They also discuss the role of patterns in software development and the need for a common language to facilitate communication among developers. Addit...
Jul 15, 2024•54 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Hemi Trickey, Head of Global Enterprise Architecture at McDonald’s, shares her insights on software architecture and digital transformation. She discusses her background in telecom and digital marketing, as well as her experience with software as a service (SaaS) before it became popular. Hemi emphasizes the importance of architecture patterns, observability, and manageability in large-scale distributed systems. She also highlights the challenges of keeping up with innovation and making decision...
Jun 17, 2024•49 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Mark Wardle, Chief Clinical Information Officer, and Vaughn Vernon discuss the intersection of healthcare and technology. Mark emphasizes the need for technology to improve patient care and the challenges of integrating digital systems in healthcare. Mark also highlights the importance of Domain-Driven Design in healthcare, as it allows for a more patient-centered approach and better communication between clinicians and patients. He discusses the limitations of current electronic health records ...
May 04, 2024•1 hr 37 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Summary In this podcast episode, Vaughn and Mark Planagumà discuss various aspects of data strategies and the implementation of Data Mesh. Mark shares his background in data engineering and his experience in building data platforms for different companies. They explore the use of Domain-Driven Design in data strategies and the role of contracts in data architecture. Mark explains the concept of Data Mesh and how it shifts the focus from centralized data warehouses to domain-driven, decentralized...
Apr 24, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Season 4Ep. 2
In this episode of the Add Dot podcast, Vaughn Vernon and Paul Rayner discuss the evolution of the Domain-Driven Design (DDD) community in North America. The conversation highlights the importance of fostering connections and providing valuable learning experiences. Throughout the conversation, Vaughn and Paul share insights into the complexities of modernization efforts, particularly in large organizations with legacy systems. They stress the importance of strategic thinking, focusing on core d...
Jan 02, 2024•45 min•Season 4Ep. 1
In this podcast episode, Vaughn interviews Jacqui Read, a .NET developer turned software architect and author of the book " Communication Patterns: A Guide for Developers and Architects ." Jacqui discusses the inspiration behind her book, emphasizing the importance of soft skills in conjunction with technical expertise. She highlights her experience in various domains and how she integrated diverse ideas into her work, leading to the identification of communication patterns and anti-patterns. Th...
Dec 08, 2023•46 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Vaughn and Karen discuss the possible benefits for and threats to humanity in the use of AI. They dip into Karen's overlapping work in blockchain and AI and her unique accomplishments and awards in her blockchain and AI work. These topics take both Vaughn and Karen way back to the days of OS/2 and its superiority to Windows, which they both experienced. Karen describes her current work and what's coming next, with key benefits to humanity. They wrap up their conversation sharing information on h...
Nov 13, 2023•55 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Vaughn and Asanka—WSO2's CTO— discuss a relatively radical and fresh approach to cloud applications and services development. The tools include the domain-driven Cell-based Architecture, the Ballerina programming language, and the Choreo cloud platform. This purpose-built trio is composed as one powerful offering to give software engineers the ability to focus their efforts on delivering cloud-native applications and services. Of course, engineers are not required to use the Ballerina programmin...
Aug 28, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Vaughn Vernon has a conversation with Alfredo Muñoz regarding the transformation and modernization within banks, why it's so urgently needed, and how efforts can be successful. Their discussion encompasses BIAN, Domain-Driven Design, Data Mesh, and why focusing on business capabilities as business, service, events, and data domains is critical. We address why banks are so resistant to change but why they must learn a new mindset in order to both survive and flourish in the age of cloud and digit...
Aug 04, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Vaughn and Carola discuss human cognition and how our minds deal with complexity through recognizing shapes, organizing into hierarchies, and categorizing by types. This introduces what sustainable architecture is and why we naturally benefit from this brain-friendly way of designing software. Domain-Driven Design is a thread woven throughout their conversation, which ties together Carola’s first book on sustainable architecture and her new book. It's title is "Domain-Driven Transformation," whi...
Jul 14, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Vaughn and Fran meander through the topics AsyncAPI and Event-Driven Architecture using Fran's "thinking out loud" style. They examine the motivation for AsyncAPI, which rescued a startup product team from prolific boilerplate infrastructure code. Every microservice they created suffered from enormous amounts of repeated code, which only got worse with frequent exponential growth of microservices. They discuss other areas such as inter-service shared AsyncAPI documents, versioned schema definiti...
Jun 13, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Vaughn and John discuss API portfolios and the increasing number of APIs being made available for public consumption. From John's deep knowledge and background in APIs, the timeline of early to contemporary technologies is considered for perspective. From there, they discuss monetization of strategic APIs using his innovative HyperCurrent product. In their dialogue, API First, REST, GraphQL, gRPC, asynchronous message-based and event-driven, the future of APIs and API products, as well as using ...
Apr 22, 2023•42 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Vaughn discusses generative AI with Cassidy Williams (@Cassidoo) regarding the SaaS AI product that she and her team have developed. They cover the challenges of generative AI that supports accuracy in content repurposing, such as: customers don't want content generated as a talk transcript with all images from the speaker's slide deck. Customers want the talk repurposed to contain the most salient points and related images that are suitable for, e.g., a blog post. What qualifies software as an ...
Apr 04, 2023•44 min•Season 3Ep. 3
With several great books on API design already on our shelves, this one stands out as a hefty pattern language and catalog for API designers. It's chock full of about everything you could need to design an industrial-strength API. Our discussion steps through the pattern writing process, including working as a team of five industry and academic professionals. Learn insights from one of the book's co-authors and pattern writers—a software industry practitioner—including his favorite and most chal...
Feb 07, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 3Ep. 1
What has changed in the software industry from 20 years ago and five years ago, and what might trends indicate about the future? Consider what developers use over and over again, year after year: programming languages, databases, testing, deployment, and operations. How can we improve developer experience with advanced programming language features, atomic and long-running transactions, and DevOps/SRE? Gazing into the future possibilities with Lev and Vaughn is fun and engaging. Hosted on Acast....
Dec 28, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Matt McLarty (@mattmclartybc) is the Global Field CTO at MuleSoft . He works closely with organizations to define digital strategies, as well as design and implement enterprise-grade API and microservices solutions. An experienced software architect, Matt has worked extensively in the field of integration and real-time data distribution. He is the co-author of the O'Reilly books Microservice Architecture and Securing Microservice APIs , co-author of the ebook Develop a Winning API Product Strate...
Nov 08, 2022•57 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Tomasz discusses these advanced topics while applying the overarching principles of Domain-Driven Design. Functional Programming and Architecture The real meaning of the largely misunderstood DRY principle (Don't Repeat Yourself) The effects of tacit knowledge within organizations. The deep historical as-it-actually-was records of Bi-Temporal Models using CQRS. Learn Functional DDD and Architecture from Tomasz in his upcoming workshop . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information...
Oct 25, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Adam Dymitruk discusses with Vaughn the optimized steps and techniques of Event Modeling—a lightweight, graphical approach to software development. In addition, the topic transitions to Event Sourcing techniques to manage application persistence challenges. You'll enjoy Adam's unique experience. Join Adam's upcoming workshop and learn to put these tools of agility to work. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Oct 04, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Vaughn and Lee discuss architecting for scale, services at Amazon, AI for enterprise operations, fear of digital transformation, taking low-code and no-code seriously, practical blockchain, cloud security, cloud cost, and avoiding unnecessary complexity. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 28, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Michael Brown is a senior software engineer at Microsoft where he helps their customers in their Cloud Adoption journey. He has over 27 years in industry experience (giving him enough time to see movements come and go and come back again). He founded Juneteenth Conference in 2020 to highlight Black excellence in technology and to create a platform to promote tech careers to Black youth. Vaughn and Michael's conversation explores how practicing Lean Startup and having a product mindset brought th...
Jul 26, 2022•52 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Vlad (Vladik) Khononov is a software engineer with over 20 years of industry experience, during which he has worked for companies large and small in roles ranging from webmaster to chief architect. Vlad maintains an active media career as a public speaker, blogger, and author. He travels the world consulting and talking about Domain-Driven Design, microservices, and software architecture in general. Vlad helps companies make sense of their business domains, untangle legacy systems, and tackle co...
Jul 01, 2022•42 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Christian Posta (@christianposta) is VP, Global Field CTO at Solo.io. He is the author of Istio in Action as well as many other books on cloud-native architecture and is well known in the cloud-native community for being a speaker, blogger ( https://blog.christianposta.com ) and contributor to various open-source projects in the service mesh and cloud-native ecosystem (Istio, Kubernetes, et. al.). Christian has spent time at government and commercial enterprises, as well as web-scale companies. ...
Jun 17, 2022•59 min•Season 2Ep. 1
What is "Continuous Architecture" and how do you define it? Why do quality attribute requirements drive software architectures? Why are they more important than functional requirements in an architectural context? Is Architecture still relevant in today’s world of Agile, Cloud and DevOps? Pierre Pureur is an experienced software architect, with extensive innovation and application development background, vast exposure to the financial services industry, broad consulting experience and comprehens...
May 06, 2022•52 min•Season 1Ep. 12
What is Systems Thinking? Vaughn and Diana discuss how this form of thinking can help software architects. If you’ve read The Economist or donated to Wikipedia, or contributed to The World Monuments Fund, you’ve interacted with systems that Diana helped to architect. She has 17+ years experience delivering initiatives to clients including Stanford, The Gates Foundation and Teach For All. She is co-founder of Mentrix Group and Principal Systems Architect for the Wikimedia Foundation. Hosted on Ac...
Apr 06, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Lin is the Director of Open-Source at Solo.io . She has worked on Istio service mesh since 2017 and serves on the Istio Technical Oversight Committee and Steering Committee. Previously, she was a Senior Technical Staff Member and Master Inventor at IBM for 15+ years. She is the author of the book " Istio Explained " and has more than 200 patents to her name. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 07, 2022•52 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Tooling (diagramming vs modelling), diagrams as code, and the importance of all this even in our new agile world. Simon is an independent consultant specializing in software architecture, and the author of “Software Architecture for Developers” (a developer-friendly guide to software architecture, technical leadership and the balance with agility). He is also the creator of the C4 model for visualizing software architecture, and the founder of Structurizr. Simon is a regular speaker at internati...
Feb 22, 2022•54 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Susanne Kaiser is an independent tech consultant supporting organizations to build and run software products from idea to production. Susanne was previously working as a startup CTO. She has a background in computer sciences and experience in software development and software architecture for more than 18 years. Susanne presents regularly at international tech conferences as a speaker. In this episode Susanne discusses with Vaughn Vernon how she uses Wardley Maps, Domain-Driven Design, and Team ...
Jan 13, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Eoin Woods is CTO at Endava, where he guides technical strategy, oversees capability development and directs investment in emerging technologies. Eoin is a widely published author in both the research and industrial communities and a regular conference speaker, with a particular interest in software architecture, DevOps and computer security. Authors Murat Erder, Pierre Pureur, and Eoin Woods have taken their extensive software architecture experience and applied it to the practical aspects of s...
Dec 18, 2021•45 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Luca Mezzalira is a Principal Solutions Architect at AWS, an international speaker, and an O’Reilly author. He loves talking about distributed systems, software architecture, Domain-Driven Design, cloud and front-end development. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 05, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Henning loves programming in high quality. He lives this passion as coder, coach, and consultant at WPS – Workplace Solutions in Hamburg, Germany. There he helps teams to structure their monoliths or to build new systems from the beginning with a sustainable architecture. Microservices or self-contained systems are often the result. Henning is author of “Domain Storytelling – A Collaborative Modeling Method” and the www.LeasingNinja.io as well as translator of “Domain-Driven Design kompakt”. Ste...
Nov 06, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 5
