Simon is a hands-on software architect and a senior consultant at C5 Alliance in Jersey. 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 using Microsoft .NET and Java. 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, delivering 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.


Most recently, Simon has set up itjersey; a web-based community for information technology in Jersey.

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.

Watch a short interview from the DevWeek 2009 conference about our approach to software architecture and how to transition into the role.


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

• Speaking at Software Architect 2009
  I'm pleased to announce that I'm presenting a number of sessions at Software Architect 2009, which takes place at the end of September in London. Here are the details of the sessions I'm presenting and we'll try to organise a CTA user group to coincide ...
• Stating the obvious
  If you've watched A developer's guide to load testing, you will have seen the graph below already. It shows the results from load testing a website written in .NET with the Apache JMeter load testing tool. Along the bottom of the graph are the actions ...
• A developer's guide to load testing - video
  Just a quickie ... the video from A developer's guide to load testing at Skills Matter last week is now available to view online. The microphone picked up the questions and comments quite well, which is excellent. Enjoy, and feel free to use the Google ...
• June 2009 training course
  I ran our From Developer to Architect training course (Coding the Architecture Workshop) earlier this week at Skills Matter in London. 8 people came along, all with slightly different levels of software development/architec...
• A developer's guide to load testing - slides
  Thanks to everybody that came along to the CTA user group earlier in the week. The tube strike may had reduced the numbers but we still had some great discussion about load testing. My slides are available to download (~4MB) and if anybody wants to ...