Diego Pacheco is a software architecture expert who is the head of software architecture at Cat's Father and an agile coach. He specializes in SOA/microservices, DevOps, and is an author and speaker. The document discusses that software architecture involves making important design decisions that involve trade-offs. It is about structuring teams for scalability and achieving desired properties like isolation, changeability, abstraction and more. The intangible architectural decisions can lead to real problems like cost increases, slowness and downtime if not addressed properly.

1. Architecture 101
Diego Pacheco

2. @diego_pacheco
❏ Cat's Father
❏ Head of Software Architecture
❏ Agile Coach
❏ SOA/Microservices Expert
❏ DevOps Practitioner
❏ Author
❏ Speaker
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3. What is Software Architecture?
Decisions
Design
⇒
Trade-offs

4. Big Rocks!

5. It's also about
teams structure scalability

6. Desired Architecture Properties?
Isolation
Changeability
Abstraction
ScalabilityOperationability
Performance
Secure
Reliability Testability
Observability

7. Intangible Decisions
leads to Big Real Problems
COST Slowness downtime Poor User
Experience
Slow Time to Market Bugs, Errors, Limitations
⇒
Revenue Loss

8. Architecture is bigger
than Infrastructure

9. Architecture can be manifested as:
Curated choices of:
❏ Language
❏ Framework
❏ Datastore
❏ Computing model
❏ Storage
❏ Caching
❏ Messaging
❏ Infrastructure
Elements of:
❏ Concepts
❏ Flow
❏ Structure
❏ Layers
❏ Coordination
❏ Standards
❏ SCM model

10. #1 Being an Architect:
it's about leadership

11. #2 Being an Architect:
it's about sales.

12. #3 Being an Architect:
it's about guessing.

13. Architecture 101
Diego Pacheco