Are you a software architect?
The line between software development and software architecture is a tricky one. Some people will tell you that it doesn't exist and that architecture is simply an extension of the design process undertaken by developers. Others will make out it's a massive gaping chasm that can only be crossed by lofty developers who believe you must always abstract your abstractions and not get bogged down by those pesky implementation details. As always, there's a pragmatic balance somewhere in the middle, but it does raise the interesting question of how you move from one to the other.
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Join us for Software Architecture for Developers, a two-day training course about pragmatic software architecture designed by software architects that code.







Scheduled public courses:
9^th March 2010, London
19^th April 2010, London
27^th April 2010, Paris
29^th June 2010, London
6^th July 2010, Paris
7^th September 2010, London

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