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Simon is a hands-on software architect who works within Detica's Global Financial Markets group. Simon has been involved in projects ranging from desktop clients and web applications through to highly scalable distributed systems and service-oriented architectures (SOA). His specialist technology is Java and, as a hands-on technical authority, he's called upon to advise and shape solutions; defining, delivering and assuring that the chosen architecture is fit for purpose and meets the non-functional requirements. Simon has also written and co-written a number of books about Java EE web technologies, spoken at several software development conferences, developed a software architecture training course and maintains a blog that’s running on his open source Java EE blogging tool called Pebble.

E-mail : simon.brown at codingthearchitecture.com

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"Coding the Architecture" is a website and community for hands-on, pragmatic software architects. Here you'll find content and discussion about architecture and the role of an architect, along with our experiences of undertaking that role. Read more...

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Software Architect 2008

We were speakers at, and community sponsors of Software Architect 2008
(3rd-5th June 2008, London). Here are the slides from our conference sessions.

Community

London User Group : Download the slides from our last London user group. Details of previous sessions are also available.
Google Group : Sign-up for discussion related to software architecture.
Facebook group : If you're on Facebook, join our group and see who else is interested in software architecture near you.

Essays from the book

What is architecture?
Towards a definition of architecture
Types of architecture
Treat enterprise architectures with a pinch of salt
Mind the gap
Reducing the gap between software developers and software architects

Recent Blog Entries

Following the specification
Back in the days when J2EE app servers were the best thing since sliced bread, I remember having lots of discussions with people about the J2EE specifications and I don't mind admitting that it was always my goal to build a truly spec compliant ...
London User Group - July 2008
The next London user group is Tuesday 15th July and it'll be a social event rather than the usual presentation/discuss...
Who should own the non-functional tests?
This is a follow-up to a post entitled Performance tuning Java systems that I made last year, which talked about some performance testing that I was doing for a customer. Last week, I went back to the same customer to make some small tweaks to the test ...

[Book] Essays for hands-on software architects.

A practical and pragmatic guide to software architecture. Read more...

Welcome

On behalf of the team, I'd like to welcome you to The Pragmatic Architect - a new website providing a centralised point of reference for content that's relevant to pragmatic software architects. Our mission is to bring you the latest news, articles and blog entries; providing you with information to help you meet the challenges of today's rapidly changing world of software development.

As an architect myself, I strongly believe that the role of an architect isn't purely technical and I've founded The Pragmatic Architect in an aim to bring together content that reflects this view of what an architect's role entails. In addition to myself, the team includes several other practising architects to contribute commentary, content, news, reviews and articles about technology, process and architecture.

In the meantime, you can subscribe via the RSS or Atom feeds. We hope you enjoy the site.

- Simon Brown, founder of The Pragmatic Architect

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Posted by Simon Brown on 17 January 2006 12:25:46 GMT #

Re: Welcome

Comment from Dan Hinojosa on 23 January 2006 22:36:58 GMT #

Simon, does your team have any relation with Andy Hunt et. al and http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/?

Re: Welcome

Comment from Simon Brown on 23 January 2006 22:52:34 GMT #

Hi Dan, no, we're a team of practising architects from London with a focus on architecture, design and process rather than programming.

The Pragmatic Architect

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If you've been wondering why it's been so quiet around here, it's because I've been storing up architect related content for a new site, which I'm pleased to announce, called The Pragmatic Architect. On behalf of the team,...

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