Mark Richards
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January 22, 2024
Software architecture by example
In this four-hour intensive course, Mark Richards and Neal Ford—software architects and the authors of numerous books and videos, including the popular video training course series Software Architecture Fundamentals—lead you on ...
January 30, 2024
Mastering Patterns in Event-Driven Architecture
Expert software architect Mark Richards takes you through the advanced design patterns that will help you achieve better responsiveness and scalability in your event-driven architecture. Join in to get hands-on with ...
February 5, 2024
Comparing Software Architectures
Join experts Neal Ford and Mark Richards for a comparison of various aspects of the same architectural solution, developed independently by isolated teams. Each team’s solution highlights the fact that there ...
February 12, 2024
Microservices caching strategies
Leveraging caching in a microservices ecosystem In this 1-day online class expert software architect Mark Richards describes and demonstrates various caching strategies and patterns that you can use in Microservices to ...
February 15, 2024
Analyzing Architecture Risk
Join expert software architect Mark Richards to learn how to identify, qualify, and mitigate architecture risk. Through exercises and real-world examples, you’ll discover how to identify and analyze risk associated with ...
February 16, 2024
Designing Distributed Systems
Join coauthors Mark Richards and Neal Ford to get expert guidance on how to analyze trade-offs in these situations. Based on the book Software Architecture: The Hard Parts, the course covers ...
March 6, 2024
Modern Enterprise Architecture Practices
Becoming effective as an enterprise architect Course outcomes Understand how enterprise architecture fits within an organization Learn why most enterprise architecture efforts fail Discover modern approaches to enterprise architecture and why ...
March 8, 2024
Designing Distributed Systems
Join coauthors Mark Richards and Neal Ford to get expert guidance on how to analyze trade-offs in these situations. Based on the book Software Architecture: The Hard Parts, the course covers ...
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Bio
Mark Richards is an experienced hands-on software architect involved in the architecture, design, and implementation of Microservices Architectures, Service Oriented Architectures, and distributed systems in J2EE and other technologies. He has been involved in the software industry since 1983, and has significant experience and expertise in application, integration, and enterprise architecture. Mark served as the President of the New England Java Users Group from 1999 thru 2003. He is the author of numerous technical books and videos, including "Software Architecture Fundamentals" (OâReilly video), "Enterprise Messaging" (OâReilly video), "Java Message Service 2nd Edition" (OâReilly), and 97 Thinks Every Software Architect Should Know (O'Reilly). Mark has a masters degree in computer science and numerous architect and developer certifications from IBM, Sun, The Open Group, and BEA. He is a regular conference speaker at the No Fluff Just Stuff (NFJS) Symposium Series, and has spoken at over 100 conferences and user groups around the world on a variety of enterprise-related technical topics.When he is not working Mark can usually be found hiking in the White Mountains or along the Appalachian Trail.