Software Architecture Presentations At InfoQ

InfoQ is a great site for the practicing programmer and has some very interesting presentations available for free. Here are my current faves.

I’m into CMSs and architecture so these two on the Guardian web site were really interesting:

1. The evolving Guardian.co.uk architecture by Mathew Wall
2. Rebuilding guardian.co.uk With DDD by Phil Wills (DDD = Domain Driven Design)

You can also hear a podcast about the Guardian site which gets into a bit more detail on the platform and how it was arrived at from Software Engineering Radio with Mathew Wall and Erik DoernenBurg (Erik’s from Thoughtworks).

Back to InfoQ…

1. Ning.com building a platform of social networks by Jay Parikh
2. Forging ahead - Scaling the BBC into Web/2.0 by Dirk-Willem van Gulik (sort of like)
3. Document Based Services at British Airways by Mike Daley and Stewart Marshall

It’s interesting to compare these talks. Ning is new so, obviously, did not have any issues with legacy code and its clean architecture reflects that. The Guardian did have legacy which they call R1 but it was gradually replaced with the new version R2 - i.e. they slowly threw the legacy away. The BBC has legacy and it seeems a certain amount of inertia. Oh dear, the poor old guys at BA seem to be ham strung by legacy and bureaucracy.

Elegance is inversely proportional to bureaucracy.