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How do you go about being a 'software architect'? Is this role dead in our world of 'agile' now?

This is a short guidebook for those people who lead software development and are looking for help on what they could be doing and how they could be going about guiding the strategic technical details of a project or product.

It's all about Objectives, Principles & Outcomes, so let's get scientific about how we approach guiding software architecture.

Here's the current Table of Contents that's guiding the writing:

Objectives:

Thriving on Change
Innovation and Experimentation
Speed and Competition

Principles:

Simplicity
Human Comprehsibility
Mechanical Sympathy
Separation of Concerns
Loos Coupling
Idempotency & Safety
Antifragility

Outcomes:

BizDevOps
Data Flows & Data Science
Hexagons, Life Preservers and Change
Events & Event Driven Architectures
Reactive Microservices
MTBR
Simian Armies
Cloud Native
Continuous Deployment
Modular Monoliths
Systems that are Easier to Strangle
Experimentation, Innovation & Competition

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