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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 world consulting and talking about Domain-Driven Design, microservices, and software architecture in general. Vlad helps companies make sense of their business domains, untangle legacy systems, and tackle complex architectural challenges. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this discussion, Christian Posta, VP at Solo.io and author of 'Istio in Action', dives into the evolving landscape of cloud-native architectures. He shares insights on how Kubernetes is revolutionizing application management while bridging tech and business needs. Christian also highlights the democratization of service mesh solutions, the role of Envoy Proxy, and the integration of eBPF for optimized performance. His journey from Red Hat to Solo illustrates the challenges of startup culture, emphasizing teamwork and innovation in the open-source ecosystem.

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 Pureur is an experienced software architect, with extensive innovation and application development background, vast exposure to the financial services industry, broad consulting experience and comprehensive technology infrastructure knowledge. His past roles include serving as Chief Enterprise Architect for a major financial services company, leading large architecture teams, managing large-scale concurrent application development projects and directing innovation initiatives, as well as developing strategies and business plans. He is coauthor of the books "Continuous Architecture in Practice: Scalable Software Architecture in the Age of Agility and DevOps"(2021) and "Continuous Architecture: Sustainable Architecture in an Agile and Cloud-Centric World" (2015) and has published many articles and presented at multiple software architecture conferences on this topic. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 delivering initiatives to clients including Stanford, The Gates Foundation and Teach For All. She is co-founder of Mentrix Group and Principal Systems Architect for the Wikimedia Foundation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 "Istio Explained" and has more than 200 patents to her name. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 architecture, technical leadership and the balance with agility). He is also the creator of the C4 model for visualizing software architecture, and the founder of Structurizr. Simon is a regular speaker at international software development conferences, and travels the world to help organizations visualize and document their software architecture. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 more than 18 years. Susanne presents regularly at international tech conferences as a speaker.In this episode Susanne discusses with Vaughn Vernon how she uses Wardley Maps, Domain-Driven Design, and Team Topologies in her strategic toolset. She also gives us a more details about her upcoming book.As one of Kalele's instructors, Susanne teaches the Fast Flow of Change WorkshopFor more books on Domain-Driven Design and the Vaughn Vernon signature series go here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 software architecture, DevOps and computer security.Authors Murat Erder, Pierre Pureur, and Eoin Woods have taken their extensive software architecture experience and applied it to the practical aspects of software architecture in real-world environments. Continuous Architecture in Practice provides hands-on advice for leveraging the continuous architecture approach in real-world environments and illuminates architectures changing role in the age of Agile, DevOps, and cloud platforms. This guide will help technologists update their architecture practice for new software challenges.For more books on Domain-Driven Design and the Vaughn Vernon signature series go here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.

Henning, a coder and consultant from WPS in Hamburg, and Stefan, a software engineer with a PhD in application landscapes, dive into the world of domain storytelling. They reveal how this visual approach enhances communication between domain experts and developers, making complex business processes clearer. The duo discusses the transformation of collaboration tools in a remote work era and share practical insights on conducting engaging workshops. With memorable anecdotes, they illustrate the impact of domain storytelling across various scenarios.