Cover of the O'Reilly book "Facilitating Software Architecture" book by Andrew Harmel-Law.
My book, Facilitating Software Architecture has been included in the Gartner 2026 Reading Guide for Software Architects and Engineers by Peter Hyde. 😱🎉
Being selected is both humbling and energizing.
Thank you everyone who contributed to what became the book. 📚
Author Drew Hoskins guides you through the essential strategies to bridge the gap between #engineering prowess and #product insight. This book is your gateway to becoming a well-rounded engineer who sees around corners and innovates according to user needs: bit.ly/4q6PztX
Thinking about the past year in software development and architecture and suggesting ways to prepare for 2026: my second article is live on the @oreilly.bsky.social Radar blog. Check it out here: www.oreilly.com/radar/softwa...
We are pleased to announce the launch of our Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, which allows customers to integrate the O’Reilly learning platform’s AI-powered search functionality directly into their own LLMs or third-party tools. More details in today's press release: bit.ly/49tQLm7
My first @oreilly.bsky.social Radar article is live! I am enjoying learning about APIs and agents and excited to hear more from our experts at the July API superstream next week. Check out my article at the following link; superstream link in the comments: www.oreilly.com/radar/apis-a...
Join host Mike Amundsen and an esteemed lineup of API experts on July 17 for our O'Reilly API Superstream, all about creating APIs optimized for AI agents. It’s free for O’Reilly members. Register here: learning.oreilly.com/live-events/...
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Our first AI Codecon event was a huge success, so we’re doing a second one on September 9: Coding for the Future Agentic World. We are asking you to propose quick five-minute lightning talks about cutting-edge work. Find more details and submit your proposal by July 18: bit.ly/4nigm5Y
Do you have a story to share about how you are using #agents to build innovative and effective AI-powered experiences? We want to hear it. The AI Codecon program will be a mix of invited talks and your proposals. Submit your idea for a five-minute lightning talk by July 18: bit.ly/4lwjY2J
"Hibit, hibit, hibit," said the encouraging frog :)
I'm excited to be speaking at @oreilly.bsky.social's Software Development Superstream: The Path to Staff Engineer!
It's June 26 @ 10 am-2 pm CST, with my talk at 11:55 am CST. It will be "Hearing and Being Heard - Getting the Entire Team to Speak".
Signup here: bit.ly/4l7OgIM
🚀 𝗧𝘄𝗼 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗜 🚀
I'm honored to be speaking at the @oreilly.bsky.social Coding with AI conference this Thursday, May 8.
🧠 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸: Bridging the AI Learning Gap: Teaching Developers to Think with AI
📅 May 8 • 11:00am ET
🔗 www.oreilly.com/CodingwithAI/
I'll be providing 15 minutes of what I've experienced with augmented coding. tl;dr great news for explorers, not so much yet for expanders & extractors.
I am so excited for @oreilly.bsky.social's Coding with AI online conference, taking place this Thursday 8 May:
www.oreilly.com/CodingwithAI/
You can register FOR FREE to attend this event and the speaker line-up is incredible. Join us to explore the future of AI-enabled development.
At the upcoming Software Architecture Superstream: Communicating Software Architecture -- the speaker lineup is incredible! Join us on April 29 at 11:00 AM ET for mapping, modeling, and effective communication skills. Get your architectural recommendations heard! Sign in (or sign up) bit.ly/4kf3Z9m
We are pleased to announce the launch of our 2025 #DEI scholarship program that will award 500 recipients with a year of complimentary access to the our learning platform. Applications are being accepted through April 5. More details in today's press release: bit.ly/41F6Vn2
At Oslo Software Architecture Group on Tuesday and JavaBin Oslo on Wednesday
Details at:
www.meetup.com/oslo-softwar...
www.meetup.com/javabin/even...
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If you liked my post on The End of Programming as We Know It, don't miss Mike Loukides' post. A lot of guidance here for developers and those managing development teams.
Submit a proposal for a talk at our new virtual conference, Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It. Proposals must be submitted by March 5. The conference will take place April 24, 2025, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. EDT: www.oreilly.com/webcasts/ld/...
Excerpt from O'Reilly Radar piece Third, train yourself to use AI effectively. O’Reilly author Andrew Stellman recommends several exercises for learning to use AI effectively.1 Here are two: Take a program you’ve written, paste it into your favorite AI chat, and ask the AI to generate comments. Then look at the comments: Are they correct? Where is the AI wrong? Where did it misconstrue the intent? Stellman’s point is that you wrote the code; you understand it. You’re not second-guessing the AI. You’re learning that it can make mistakes and seeing the kinds of mistakes that it can make. A good next step is asking an AI assistant to generate unit tests, either for existing code or some new code (which leads to test-driven development). Unit tests are a useful exercise because testing logic is usually simple; it’s easy to see if the generated code is incorrect. And describing the test—describing the function that you’re testing, its arguments, the return type, and the expected results—forces you to think carefully about what you’re designing.
Just got quoted in a great @oreilly.bsky.social Radar article about AI & learning. 🚀
It's weird and counterintuitive, but accepting that AI makes a ton of mistakes is the first step in using it effectively.
@davefarley77.bsky.social gave a keynote first that overlapped substantially with mine, so I had 24 hours to come up with something new. There are spots where this preso is rough but I really enjoyed what I dug up from deeper in the mine. Also, @gotocon.com runs a great conference.
Hi all, first post here. Yet another refugee from the ruins of Twitter (I refuse to call it X). Follow me if you are interested in:
CI/CD (I wrote a book about Continuous Deployment)
Software development in general
Agile and XP
Software testing and TDD
Microservices
Clean code and architecture