Architectural Concepts Podcast

If you have been following this podcast for any length of time, you know about the SEI's SATURN conference. Whether you are new to this podcast and SATURN or simply want to know what is planned for this years event, you'll want to listen to this episode to hear what the conference chair, Bill Pollak, and his team from the SEI have planned for this years event.
The 2015 SATURN event takes place in Baltimore, Maryland April 27-30, 2015. For Software Architects, this is a must attend event. Also, the event is taking abstracts from speakers through January 16, 2015.
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References:
A classic book:
Software Architecture: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline Paperback
by Mary Shaw, David Garlan
Will be a classic:
DevOps: A Software Architect's Perspective – Coming May 21, 2015
by Len Bass, Ingo Weber, Liming Zhu

Listen to this episode to hear how wallowing around in many small balls of mud can help avoid the classic big ball of mud--and ultimately enable you too to practice "the art of destroying software".
Turns out the key to writing great software starts with planning upfront to destroy it. In this episode, Greg shares many insights, with the main insight being that we have all been overlooking one key "-ility". That is, is delete-ability of code. And while some of you might argue the ideas are not new, Greg's way of presenting them definitely is.
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References:
Greg's blog: http://goodenoughsoftware.net/
Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World by Joe Armstrong
Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good!: A Beginner's Guide by Fred Hebert
The Glass Cage: Automation and Us by Nicholas Carr
Parallel Distributed Processing, Volume 1 By David E. Rumelhart, James L. McClelland and PDP Research Group

After defeating mankind at Jeopardy, Watson is displaying humility and mercy by taking on a new role: assisting humans with research and finding smarter answers, for example, helping treat brain cancer. In this episode we discuss Watson and how it will impact your future with, Jerome Pesenti, VP of Watson Core Technology.
IBM continues to make a huge bet on cognitive computing through Watson, and is extending this bet into the cloud, making Watson available to a much wider audience in the form of Watson-as-a-Service, Is there a place for it in your architecture? After all, having some level of machine learning and intelligence may quickly become a base requirement for enterprise applications. Listen to learn more...
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Books that were mentioned:
Permutation City
Diamond Age
Everything is Obvious: How Common Sense Fails Us
References:
Watson Ecosystem
How Watson Changed IBM
Build with Watson
Watson Q&A at IBM's Developer Works (interesting to peruse)

In light of the size of current software projects, good project leadership is essential to a project’s success. The role of technical project leader frequently falls on software architects, yet architects are often not trained in leadership or—even worse—are not aware of their roles as leaders. Yet, the leadership architects can and should provide is often pivotal to a project’s success.
In this episode, Russ interviews Bett as she describes several concrete strategies that an architect can follow to become a leader.
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References:
The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything by Stephen M.R. Covey
Life Is a Series of Presentations: 8 Ways to Punch Up Your People Skills Tony Jeary (Author), Kim Dower (Contributor), J.E. Fishman (Contributor)
So, What's Your Point?: A practical guide for learning and applying effective interpersonal communication techniques by James Wetherbe and Bond Wetherbe
Toastmasters

In this episode, Bett and Russ deliver 10 predictions for 2015. But don't worry, this isn't one of those predictable prediction podcasts, No, we wouldn't bore you like that! Instead, we've taken time to also include those futuristic, mind blowing innovations we'd selfishly like to see come about in 2015.
Listen and be amazed by our ability to see into the future...
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