Simon is a hands-on software architect and has a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science from the University of Reading. Over the past 12 years, he’s been involved in projects ranging from rich desktop clients and web applications through to highly scalable distributed systems and service-oriented architectures; predominantly within the finance industry. He's also undertaken consulting and training roles with a broader focus on people, process and technology.

Simon is additionally active in wider aspects of the IT industry. Using his architecture experience, he founded the Coding the Architecture website and London user group, which bring together and deliver content for the growing community of hands-on pragmatic software architects. He has also written and co-written a number of books about Java EE web technologies, spoken at a number of high profile software development conferences, developed a software architecture training course and actively maintains a public blog.

E-mail : simon.brown at codingthearchitecture.com

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"Coding the Architecture" is a website and community for hands-on, pragmatic software architects. Here you'll find content and discussion about architecture and the role of an architect, along with our experiences of undertaking that role. Read more...

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Watch the video from our September 2008 London User Group, where we tried to answer the question of how much architecture is enough architecture.

• What is architecture?
  Towards a definition of architecture
• Types of architecture
  Treat enterprise architectures with a pinch of salt
• The role of a hands-on software architect
  What should a hands-on software architect do?
• Mind the gap
  Reducing the gap between software developers and software architects

• Testing Times
  Having recently taken another look at my project's unit testing strategy I thought I'd share some of my thoughts on how I see unit testing as just another force on the system's design. As such it needs to be weighed in the balance with the other forces. ...
• The role of a hands-on software architect
  Becoming a software architect isn't something that simply happens overnight or with a promotion. It's a role, not a rank. It's an evolutionary process where you'll gradually gain the experience and confidence that you need to undertake the role. While ...
• How much architecture is enough?
  Thanks to everybody that came along to our "in *our* brains" session last week where we tried to answer the question of how much architecture is enough. The event was part of Skills Matter's London Agile Month and it was a great turnout where we had some ...