How to Think Like an Architect
summary
Claims that developers and tech leads can adopt an architect’s eye without the title and gives concrete practices: translate business drivers into explicit architecture characteristics, broaden technical breadth, and analyze trade-offs with scorecards and ADRs. Demonstrates real trade-offs (full 500 KB event payload vs key-based events causing stamp coupling, 350 KB vs 50 KB consumers), provides a characteristics worksheet (PDF/PowerPoint/Keynote), recommends InfoQ/DZone ref cards/ThoughtWorks Radar and a 20-minute daily learning habit.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:13You dont have to be a software architect
- 2:20The Clear Choice
- 9:30The Architects Eye
- 13:05Example
- 21:20Bottom Line
- 22:40Triangle of Knowledge
- 23:59Game of Life
- 33:14Resources
- 37:24Levels of Knowledge
- 40:14The 20 Minute Rule
- 42:54Analyzing Tradeoffs
- 46:04Speed to Market
- 49:39Out of Context Trap
- 55:39Pro Tip
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