An extreme introduction to architecture, importance and responsibilities. Contents are less because talk was more.

4. PRAVEEN NAIR
Head of Architecture and Technology
ORION KOCHI
http://blog.ninethsense.com/

5. • Business Architect
• Infrastructure Architect
• Data Architect
• Application Architect
• Technical Architect
• Solution Architect
• Enterprise Architect

6. Enterprise Architecture Methodologies
• The Zachman Framework
• The Open Group Architectural Framework (TOGAF)
• The Federal Enterprise Architecture
• The Gartner Methodology

8. An Architecture is…
• set of significant decisions about the organization of a software
system,
• selection of the structural elements and their interfaces by which the
system is composed,
• behavior of the structural elements as specified in the collaborations
among those elements,
• composition of these structural and behavioral elements into
progressively larger subsystems,
• architectural style that guides this organization (i.e. these elements
and their interfaces, their collaborations, and their composition).

9. Quality Attributes
• Runtime
• Performance, Security, Availability, Reliability, Functionality, Usability
• Engineering
• Modifiability, Portability, Reusability, Integrability, Interoperability, Testability
• Business
• Time to market, cost, lifetime, target market, rollout schedule, use of legacy
systems

10. Technical Architecting Process

11. Architectural Styles
• Communication
• SOA, Message Bus
• Deployment
• Client-Server, N-Tier
• Domain
• DDD
• Structure
• Object Oriented, Component based

12. Application Architecture Meta Frame

13. Reference
application
architecture

14. Designing your Architecture

15. Who is an Architect?
• Definition
• Management of non-functional requirements
• Architecture definition
• Technology selection
• Architecture evaluation
• Architecture collaboration
• Delivery
• Ownership of bigger picture
• Leadership
• Coaching and mentoring
• Quality assurance
• Design, development and testing

16. Tools
• UML
• Whiteboard, Marker
• Paper, Pen/Pencil
• Brain

17. Thank You
“Any time you're afraid to do something and you do it, it makes you
stronger. Even if you fail." -- Fred Bartlit, Law firm owner