The Software Architect Elevator

This is a very thoughtful and enjoyable book. I read it like a devotional, one chapter per day. The chapters and very short and standalone, a bit like informal essays or well-crafted blog posts. Many have important insights that are worth letting sink in, at least for consideration if not for incorporation. The insights aren't provocative but often non-trivial and clearly won by hard experience. Gregor has a background that is hard to match: author of the most influential book ever on async messaging patterns, Director at Google, advisor to enterprises and is now with AWS. He has "big tech" experience but also understands that the challenges both technical and cultural at traditional enterprises are quite complex -- and he advocates for patterns that can help you to take them on. I like the fact that he calls out patterns from big tech companies that can be applied at enterprises but cautions against air-lifting them all unless you have the same context. One of my favorite essays was the one on Starbucks and two-phase commits. Simple but brilliant. Great book. Keep it coming.

First of all, I will say I like Gregor Hohpe's writing and have been following his presentations on YouTube. I purchased a previous book called "37 Things One Architect Knows About IT Transformation", and really appreciated his insight. So I was interested in reading more. I purchased this book, only to discover, however, this book is the exact same book under a different name and publisher and is noted as the 1st edition. If you are reading Hohpe for the first time, then proceed with this book. If you've been following him and have purchased "37 Things.." you already have the content of this book. Save your money for one of his others; Cloud Strategy or Platform Strategy when it comes out.

Gregor Hohpe brings a great book about the role of IT Architects in modern organizations. He talks about soft skills that are required for IT Architects, like communication, leadership, decision making.

Hat mir eine neue Perspektive auf die Rolle des Softwarearchitekten gegeben. Einiges was beschrieben wird ist meiner Meinung nach Common Sense. Trotzdem waren auch diese Teile hilfreich und haben neue Perspektiven aufgezeigt.

A very well written book, both accessible and concise. I recommend this book to anyone considering a move in to 'IT architecture' (regardless of what type of architect you intend to be) and to those who have already established a career as an architect. I have been in IT for 20 years, 10 of those as an architect of one kind or another, mainly with enterprise scale clients. I found the book was at times therapeutic ('so its not just me!') , insightful ('I never considered it from that angle'), immediately applicable ( after reading a section on powerpoints I closed the book and immediately edited a executive level slide deck I was working on). The challenge with architecture as a discipline, in my opinion, is that it is always different and dependent on context. This book does a great job of explaining what architecture means in large organisations as well as providing numerous ways to communicate your ideas.