Making Architecture Matter - Martin Fowler Keynote

From OSCON 2015 in Portland: In the software world, architecture often gets a bad reputation. I’ll talk about why it matters, and how we can pay attention to it without falling into traps.
About Martin Fowler:
Martin Fowler is an author, speaker, consultant, and self-described general loudmouth on software development. He concentrates on designing enterprise software - looking at what makes a good design and which practices are needed to come up with good design. Fowler has been a pioneer of various topics around object-oriented technology and agile methods, and written several books including Refactoring, UML Distilled, Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, and NoSQL Distilled. For the last decade he’s worked at ThoughtWorks, which he considers a “really rather good” system delivery and consulting firm. He writes at martinfowler.com.
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[@rambo4014]

Unfortunately even today people think that architecture and code are mutually exclusive

[@armorsmith43]

I love that he was able to give an important lesson on the “How?” of software architecture at the very end: delegate decisions to those with the time to focus on them.

[@shrutitanwar1114]

Having read couple of books by Martin Fowler, but seeing him for the first time here, don't know why it surprised me to find what a great speaker he is. So articulative and smart!

[@adnanhashem98]

After ~7 minutes Fowler defines software architecture as "the important stuff" and then goes ahead to "argue" why should we care about "software architecture". This clip is a good exercise for students studying logical fallacies 🤣

[@ahmedalhallag3338]

I can't believe someone like the great Martin Fowler is given only 15 mins to talk ..

[@Rtzoor]

why is it hard to always show the presentation??!?!?!?! ALWAYS SHOW THE PRESENTATION

[@malcolmstonebridge7933]

"Gazillion" - well that sounds like proper science/engineering...

[@georgeobada7531]

One can appreciate the point of this presentation when one's sense of code smell is trained, functional and utilized. Those controlling the budget as well as developer leads should understand the design stamina hypothesis, so that the appropriate focus and priority is given to internal quality - otherwise pay a high price soon.

[@lepidoptera9337]

Architecture is when you think for ten minutes before you start chopping. Most people just then have that kind of patience when they see an axe and a tree.

[@lematindesmagiciens8764]

For me, architecture is the distribution of complexity in a system. And also, how subsystems communicate with each other.

[@thelonearchitect]

Bringing Martin Fowler only to talk 15 minutes. Poor man.

[@catgirl8202]

CSCI 4/5448 OOAD Quiz 9:

[@tibordigana2551]

All managers should see this video before they would crash their company.

[@baggiowong1332]

It's amazing when you rewind the talk at 1.5 the normal speed and still hear the conference speaker hit home with razor sharp precision and clarity. Well said!!

[@Ankushkushwahachd]

Very nice and straight-forward talk about the value of software architecture

[@maverickmusic101]

Only 275,435 people got lucky to stumble upon this wonderful video. Thanks OReilly for sharing this video !!

[@vaporizer08]

He is already a legend.

[@vimalneha]

I love his enormous skill.

[@ManojTyagi2006]

Very useful explanation about architecture. Amazing thoughts by Martin as always.

[@Equilibrier]

A super smart man. It's a pleasure to listen to him. Ok, he's a huge weight in software developing, but as a man it's a pleasure to listen.