Well if the first video got a 5/5 rating, you can be sure that the second part deserves that as well. Although more advanced than the first part, it’s pretty obvious both videos must be considered to be one workshop. Looking a the clothing of the instructors and audience in the studio (2 people), tt’s pretty clear they were recorded on the same day :).
While the first video was more about common sense and obvious rights and wrongs (patterns and anti-patters), the second part seems to boil down to ‘it depends’. TIMTOWTDI (There is more than one way to do it) will Perl people say. By example, it was clear the instructors had a very different opinion about SOA and Continous Delivery.
Like in the first part, the chapters titles are well chosen and give a correct overview of the subjects that make up the course. The video starts with Architecture Tradeoffs (see above), followed by Continous Delivery, Abstraction and Choosing and Comparing Architecture. More applied are the chapters about Web Services and Messaging, SOA, Integrations Hubs and the continuation of Continous Delivery. More abstract where the Approaches to Enterprise Architecture, Strategies, Evolutionary Architecture and Emergent Desing.
Again, this video delivers what it promises. Neal Ford and Mark Richards are still enthusiastic about their teaching and seem even more involved in the second part.
Again, great series. Kudos to Neal and Mark.
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