Fredrik talks to Barry O'Reilly about software architecture.

Barry has spent a lot of time and energy connecting software architecture to actual code and development work, and finding good ways of actually training new generations of software architects.

Architecture is a level above programming, it is a different skill, and it needs to be properly taught so that more people can think and make active decisions about it. Oh, and architecture happens at a group level. You can't really do it alone.

Barry's quest led him to complexity science, a PhD to actually prove his ideas hold up, and two books. The idea that you have to understand what goes on in the code in order to do good architecture is more controversial than one might think.

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Links

• Barry
• Black tulip
• Complexity science
• IDE
• Antifragile
• Nassim Taleb
• Nassim guesting Econtalk talking about antifragility while the book was in progress
• Barry's papers:
  • No More Snake Oil: Architecting Agility through Antifragility (2019)
  • An introduction to residuality theory: Software design heuristics for complex systems (2020)
  • The Machine in the Ghost: Autonomy, Hyperconnectivity, and Residual Causality (2021)
  • The Philosophy of Residuality Theory (2021)
  • Residuality Theory, random simulation, and attractor networks(2022)
  • Residuality and Representation: Toward a Coherent Philosophy of Software Architecture (2023)
• Domain driven design Europe
• Leanpub
• Residues - Barry's first book
• Barry's NDC talks - on About usPrivacy PolicyTerms of Service