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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.

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What is software architecture?

What is a software architect?

Essays from the book

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?

Recent Blog Entries

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 ...

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1	Experiences of a Pragmatic Java EE Architect I'm pleased to announce that I've been invited to speak at the upcoming UK Conference for Java™ Team Management Technology, where I'll be presenting a session entitled Experiences of a Pragmatic Java EE Architect. Java EE has widespread adoption ...	03-Feb-2006 15:09:04
2	The Top Ten Ways to Botch an Enterprise Java Application If you're planning on heading to JavaOne this year, Cameron Purdy will be presenting what sounds like a very interesting talk on the top ten ways to botch an enterprise Java application. From his blog... Two of my presentations were accepted for ...	25-Jan-2006 13:28:33
3	Developing Java EE 5.0 applications with EJB 3.0 and JSF If you're looking to start designing and building systems with EJB 3.0 and JSF then the following session might be for you. Title : Developing Java EE 5.0 applications with EJB 3.0 and JSF Date : Thursday January 26 2006 12:00-14:00 Location : ...	19-Jan-2006 12:51:34