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Fri, April 30AI-Assisted Software EngineeringArchitecture & Distributed Systems
The industry is moving forward with agentic code generation, with both successes and failures along the way. Many of those failures stem from agents lacking knowledge of a system’s architecture and the architectural capabilities that the system needs to support.
There is growing interest in teaching agents about architecture, but doing that requires developers to understand architecture themselves. In this keynote, you will explore the fundamental aspects of software architecture that developers need to know, and why they matter when using agentic code generation and teaching agents about architecture.
What You Will Learn
The fundamental aspects of software architecture that developers need to understand
Why architectural knowledge matters when using agentic code generation
Why understanding architecture yourself is essential when teaching agents about it
Who Should Attend
Software Developers, Software Architects, Technical Leads, and practitioners using or preparing to use agentic code generation.
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Mark Richards is an experienced, hands-on software architect involved in the architecture, design, and implementation of microservices architectures and other distributed systems in a variety of technologies. He has been in the software industry since 1983 and has significant experience and expertise in application, integration, and enterprise architecture. Mark is the founder of DeveloperToArchitect.com, a free website devoted to helping developers in the journey to becoming a software architect. In addition to hands-on consulting, Mark has authored numerous technical books and videos, including his two latest books Fundamentals of Software Architecture and Software Architecture: The Hard Parts that he co-authored with Neal Ford. Mark has spoken at hundreds of conferences and user groups around the world on a variety of enterprise-related technical topics.