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by Vaughn Vernon

Interviews with leading software architects and developers. Listen to get deep insights on modern software architecture and development approaches while facing sociotechnical challenges. If you are a technology executive, senior architect, or software engineer you will gain a fresh perspective on increasing success and innovation in software design and implementation. More about Vaughn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Episodes

  1. Choosing the Right Architectural Styles and Patterns

    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...

  2. Innovating at Scale: Lessons from McDonald’s Tech Evolution

    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...

  3. Revolutionizing Healthcare: Discovering How Domain-Driven Design Leads to Improved Patient Outcomes

    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...

  4. Decentralizing Data: Navigating the Shift to Data Mesh

    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...

  5. Journey to Explore DDD: Denver, Americas, and Beyond

    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,...

  6. Breaking the Silence: Navigating the Spectrum of Communication Patterns

    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…

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  7. Humanity and AI

    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…

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  8. Made for the Cloud: Cell-based Architecture, Ballerina Language, and Choreo Platform

    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...

  9. Banking Transformation and Modernization

    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…

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  10. From Sustainable Architecture to Domain-Driven Transformation

    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....

  11. AsyncAPI and Event-Driven Architecture

    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...

  12. API Portfolios for Everyone

    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...

  13. AI That Actually Works (and With Ethics, Even!)

    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...

  14. Writing Patterns for API Design

    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…

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  15. Viewpoints: Software Development's Future

    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...

  16. Web API Design in the Face of Complex Distributed Architectures

    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...

  17. Functional, DRY, and Bi-Temporal Models

    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...

  18. Event Modeling and Event Sourcing

    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....

  19. Overcoming Complexity in Modernization with Cloud and Other Popular Technologies

    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...

  20. From Juneteenth to UML in Color

    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…

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  21. Balancing Coupling in Software Design

    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…

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  22. Edge and Service Mesh with Istio and Envoy Proxy

    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...

  23. Architecture in Today’s World of Agile, Cloud & DevOps

    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...

  24. Systems Thinking

    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...

  25. Service Mesh

    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...

  26. Visualizing Software Architecture

    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…

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  27. Wardley Mapping, Team Topologies, & DDD

    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…

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  28. Continuous Architecture in Practice

    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...

  29. Micro Frontends & AWS

    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.

  30. Domain Storytelling—What is it?

    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...

  31. Team Topologies

    Discussion includes motivation for writing the Team Topologies book. How can TT approach help to build software that is more secure? Techniques, challenges, recommendations when adopting TT. Matthew Skelton is co-author of Team Topologies: organizing business and technology teams for fast flow....

  32. Big Ball of Mud to Microservices—Our Journey

    Christian Deger is responsible for architecture and platform at RIO The Logistics Flow. He has more than 20 years of experience in software engineering and believes in a minimum viable platform supporting autonomous ‘you build it, you run it’ teams. He tries to align cultural changes and...

  33. Leading Digital Transformations and Sociotechnical Architecture

    Xin is a sociotechnical architect at Danske Bank. She believes that a product, domain and team-oriented architecture is the super glue to bind multiple agile teams navigating toward a common horizon. In her organization’s recently Spotified landscape where a team’s cognitive capacity is under...

  34. Web API Strategy and Design to Deliver Value

    Join Vaughn Vernon as he interviews James Higginbotham, an API and microservice architecture consultant with over 20 years of experience in developing and deploying apps and APIs. He provides API strategy, design and microservice architecture guidance to enterprise IT and organizations undergoing...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Interviews with leading software architects and developers.

Listen to get deep insights on modern software architecture and development approaches while facing sociotechnical challenges.

If you are a technology executive, senior architect, or software engineer you will gain a fresh perspective on increasing success and innovation in software design and implementation.

More about Vaughn

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Vaughn Vernon

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