Software Architecture: Martin Fowler

Making Architecture Matter - Martin Fowler Keynote - YouTube


"What is Software Architecture?

• "Expert developers' shared understanding of the system design."
• The set of design decisions 
• that must be made early
• that you wish you could get right early
• that are hard to change
• The important stuff (whatever it is)"

Martin Fowler’s Design Stamina Hypothesis and Video Compression

Good design => faster and better feature delivery 

Who Needs an Architect? @ IEEE (PDF) by Martin Fowler