Looking for interesting opportunities

Posted by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on Jul 28, 2010 in Blog | View Comments

Looking for interesting opportunities

After 3 years working in xsights as VP R&D, it is now time to move on. I am looking for an interesting development management position preferably as VP R&D. Other interesting opportunities (e.g. a  chief architect position) will also be welcomed. The position should be in Israel (Hasharon, Tel-aviv or Haifa areas) On a related note, I am also available for focused...

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Evolving Architectures – Part IV – Design mechanics

Posted by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on Jul 20, 2010 in Agile Architecture, Blog, Featured Posts | View Comments

Evolving Architectures – Part IV – Design mechanics

If we want to evolve architectures or change an existing architecture in general, for that matter, it is important to understand design mechanics. I recently attended a seminar with Kent Beck that talked about “responsive design”, where he provided a good definition for 5 strategies or types of design mechanics*: Leap Parallel Simplification Stepping Stone “Just Do...

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Tidbits

Posted by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on Jul 6, 2010 in Blog | View Comments

Tidbits

New month new round of tidbits. IASA Israel chapter 2nd meeting This Thursday (July 8th) at 17:00 Israel time, IASA Israeli chapter is holding its 2nd meeting. I am going to be there moderating the discussion on Architecture and Lean/Agile projects if you are around Raanana feel free to join SEI webinar on software architecture Another software architecture related event going on on July 8th...

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Tier is a natural boundary

Posted by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on Jun 21, 2010 in Blog, Featured Posts | Comments Off

Tier is a natural boundary

When talking about multi-tiered architectures, we need to remember that the tier boundary is significant. The tier boundary is where distribution happens and if you remember the “fallacies of distributed computing“, you know not to take that lightly. A tier is a physical boundary (versus, for example, an Edge in a SOA which is a logical boundary within the service). The implications...

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Tidbits

Posted by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on Jun 14, 2010 in Blog | View Comments

Tidbits

From time to time I am going to post a few thoughts that come up which are longer than a tweet but shorter than a post. Software Architecture books I recently got a question from Jon : I am wanting to make the leap from senior engineer/team lead to software architect, can you recommend any good books or resources? Well, my current top 5 books for architects are Software system architecture...

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Software Architecture – 5 years later

Posted by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on Jun 9, 2010 in Blog | View Comments

Software Architecture – 5 years later

I got several interesting comments to “Who needs an architect” (both here and on DZone). Some of them said I don’t get the architect “role”, some said I am looking at things from the code level and don’t see the forest for the trees,  others said that this whole “agile” thing is crap (admittedly not in so many words). Another one talked about the...

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