title	conference	date
AI's impact on software architecture	JCON EUROPE 2026	2026-04-20
Claims that generated code equals solved architecture get a counter-argument grounded in thirty years of experience: LLMs produce runnable code but the… Talk on
AI: A Tool for Software Architecture?	JCON EUROPE 2026	2026-04-20
Surveyed architects name communication as the biggest challenge, and experiments show LLMs often fabricate even when given source data: JQAssistant + Neo4j… Talk on
Team and Software: Making an Impact as an Architect	Voxxed Days Zurich 2026	2026-03-24
Argues that technical skill alone doesn’t move systems: architects must convert technical quality goals into decisions teams actually implement, so… Talk on
20 Years of Domain-Driven Design: What I’ve Learned About DDD	WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2025	2025-07-09
Claims that DDD is a 20-year practice focused on steering quality toward a core domain, not spreading it evenly; uses orange stickies in Event Storming for… Talk on
Can We Measure Developer Productivity?	JCON EUROPE 2025	2025-05-12
Asserts that productivity is measurable but only useful when tied to purpose and owned by teams, not used for performance reviews; recommends the DORA four… Talk on
Architecture and Agility: A Shared Skillset!	Agile meets Architecture 2025	2025-04-03
Claims that software architecture is effectively an implementation of agility, backed by concrete practices: use of architecture decision records to record… Talk on
Interview with Eberhard Wolff	Software Architecture Summit Oktober 2024	2024-10-14
Eberhard Wolff answers interview questions about the workshop he runs at the Software Architecture Summit, discussing its content and how to participate. The… Interview in German on
Domain-Driven Design: A Complete Example	JCON EUROPE 2024	2024-05-13
Walks through a full DDD workflow: uses event storming (up to about 10 people can populate timelines) to expose events, picks bounded contexts (order… Talk on
Legacy Software: Really a Problem?	Software Architecture Gathering – Digital 2023	2023-11-27
Legacy software usually already solves a business problem so migration must deliver new business value rather than just replace technology. Teams estimate full… Talk on
Legacy Software Really a Problem	JCON WORLD ONLINE 2023	2023-11-20
Argues that legacy software already proves business value, so migrations must deliver measurable product gains rather than just cleaner code; shows Strangler… Talk on
Don't Overdose on Domain-Driven Design	JCON WORLD ONLINE 2023	2023-11-20
Argues that DDD succeeds only when the domain—not architecture or frameworks—drives decisions, and gives concrete practices: start with domain prototyping… Talk on
Software Architecture for Humans!	Agile meets Architecture Berlin 2023	2023-10-05
Argues that architecture must match the people working on it, not just the dependency graph, and shows concrete fixes: run behavioral code analysis (who edits… Talk on
Software Architecture for Humans!	Software Architecture fwdays'23	2023-09-19
Argues that architecture quality depends on human capacity not abstract ideals and gives concrete practices: use Structure101 for dependency and size metrics… Talk on
Software Architecture for Humans!	JCON Europe 2023	2023-06-20
Argues that architecture succeeds only when it fits the people doing the work, offering a concrete model: compare system complexity to a team’s maximum… Talk on
Microservices? Monoliths? Modules!	Software Architecture fwdays'22	2022-09-24
Claim: complexity comes from bad modularization not from microservices or monoliths. Evidence: an old project takes 50 minutes to start, another release cycle… Talk on
Modularization: Foundation of Microservices and Monoliths	JCON-ONLINE 2021	2021-10-05
Modularization reduces cognitive load by hiding design decisions and data so teams change only the module they need; the talk cites Parnas 1971 and advocates… Talk on
Microservices? Monoliths? An Annoying Discussion!	JCON-ONLINE 2021	2021-10-05
Monolith in practice had hour-plus compiles, ~50 minute startup and weekend two‑day releases; another project ran quarterly releases with ten weeks of testing… Talk on
Modularization: Foundation of Microservices and Monoliths	JCON-ONLINE 2021	2021-10-05
Argues that microservices are just one way to build modules and that structural quality depends on module boundaries not deployment style; reviews classic… Talk on
Microservices? Monoliths? An Annoying Discussion!	JCON-ONLINE 2021	2021-10-05
Argues that monolith vs microservices is the wrong question and instead demonstrates concrete, repeatable ways to raise structural quality so systems scale and… Talk on
Service Meshes: Istio, Linkerd - or No Mesh at All?	GOTOpia Chicago 2021	2021-04-20
Compares Istio (Envoy-based) and Linkerd (own proxy) with concrete tradeoffs: Envoy proxy brings many features and customization, Linkerd prioritizes… Talk on
Organization: A Tool for Software Architects	GOTOpia February 2021	2021-02-09
Argues that organization is a design lever: define team boundaries that map to domain responsibilities, create cross‑functional teams owning code, data and… Talk on
Microservice: Architecture, Implementation and Production	JCON 2020	2020-10-27
Overview of taking a concrete Java microservices application from architecture through implementation to production. Covers microservice architecture patterns… Talk in German on
Microservices — A Conclusion	W-JAX 2019	2019-11-04
The talk reviews real-world successes and failures with microservices, naming where they have worked and where they caused problems. It draws lessons from… Talk in German on
How to Successfully Introduce DDD in an Organization	W-JAX 2019	2019-11-04
Panelists share real-world experiences introducing Domain-Driven Design (DDD) at client organizations, discussing which techniques and strategies fit which… Panel in German on
Why Continuous Delivery doesn't work?	JAX 2019	2019-05-06
Examines why many organizations still fail to implement Continuous Delivery successfully despite years of practice, focusing on common failure modes and… Talk in German on
How Do I Become a Successful Software Architect?	W-JAX 2018	2018-11-05
The talk explains what skills and practices make a successful software architect beyond applying patterns like DDD or microservices. It focuses on the… Talk in German on
What Cloud Native Java Really Means for Developers	W-JAX 2018	2018-11-05
A panel discusses what “Cloud-Native Java” concretely means for Java developers, contrasting views like running existing architectures on cloud platforms… Talk in German on
Event-based Architecture & Implementations with Kafka & Atom	GOTO Berlin 2018	2018-10-31
Compares Kafka and Atom with concrete tradeoffs: Kafka stores records forever, offers consumer groups and partition ordering guarantees, needs… Talk on
Microservices with Java, Spring Boot and Spring Cloud	Voxxed Days Vienna 2016	2016-03-16
Shows a runnable demo that packages a Spring Boot app as a single executable JAR, starts embedded Tomcat, and responds to curl; adds Spring Boot Actuator to… Talk on
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