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Within software architecture, few people shaped the industry as much as Grady Booch. Safe to say he's a true legend. In today's The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast episode, he shares fascinating stories, insights, observations. Listen or watch the full episode: - YouTube: - Spotify, Apple, or web: Thank you to... our wonderful sponsors: 🌟 WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. Learn more at 🌟Sevalla — Deploy anything from preview environments to Docker images. Check it out at 🌟Chronosphere — The observability platform built for control. Get details at --- 3 of my takeaways from this fascinating conversation: 1. Surprising: The US Department of Defense and the military built some of the most complicated software systems in the 70s and 80s. In the 70s, these organizations probably had the most code to deal with - globally! - and things like distributed computing were pioneered thanks to these use cases. 2. The three axes of software architecture Grady argues that when talking about software architecture, we should look at these three dimensions: ceremony, risk and complexity. 3. The economics of software and software architecture are always connected Machine time was very expensive in the 1960s and 1970s, and software had to be written from scratch. Good architecture meant writing highly performant code to utilize these rather limited machines. However, these days, machine time has gotten very cheap, and there are also plenty of “building blocks” at our disposal: from frameworks to cloud services. Software architecture is frequently still connected with cost: to decide on what services and technologies to use, taking the cost aspect into account! I hope you enjoy this conversation - together with a history overview of the last 50 years in software - as much as I did! Thanks a lot Grady Boochshow more

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Gergely Orosz1 year ago

Grady is no longer active on X, but he is very much on Bluesky: (I’m also active there - often more than here, as more devs are there and it’s more lively for tech discussions: )

Shatro (not Marco)1 year ago

@Grady_Booch Sys arch should NOT concern itself w/econ (made up field w/made up maths); it should solely concern itself w/WHY of Cloud🙄kill-switches controlled from Space in highly centralized power grid w/highly auto🤖sucking Qi of billions of faked lives OL&IRL😾 +magnetic poles EFFECTS!

amul.exe1 year ago

@Grady_Booch Deep insight this ☝🏻☝🏻

foxriverdevops1 year ago

@Grady_Booch so good, thank you!

Bat1 year ago

@Grady_Booch Legend

Giovani1 year ago

@Grady_Booch Thank you for this interview @Grady_Booch !

Gergely Orosz1 year ago

@Grady_Booch If you’d like to find him on text-based social media, he posts on Bluesky: (I’m also active there - often more than here, as more devs are there: )

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