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Fueled by ever new highs in cryptocurrency prices, there is currently a lively debate about blockchains. Some praise the “self-sustaining” currencies as saviors in times of crisis, while others see their excessive power consumption as a climate killer. But which opportunities and risks the new technologies harbor for software architecture is rarely a matter of…
Verbal confusion In my work as a trainer for domain-driven design (short: DDD), I notice that participants of my DDD training courses occasionally have trouble distinguishing precisely between five terms: domain subdomain context bounded context module Subdomains are confused with bounded contexts, or the term module is used as a synonym for subdomain and bounded context.…
This blog post answers the most important questions about the written part of the iSAQB Advanced Level exam. The iSAQB entry level of the Certified Professional for Software Architecture certification, the Foundation Level (CPSA‑F), includes a multiple-choice test as an examination. At the second level, the Advanced Level (shortened: CPSA‑A), the examinee works on a paper.…
Functional Architecture Is Better
Wittgenstein wrote, “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” Moritz Nähr, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons And functional architecture works best with functional programming languages. Functional Software Architecture (“FUNAR”) is one of the most advanced curricula in the iSAQB Advanced canon. It’s about the specific techniques for domain modelling and structuring software…
Want to learn Software Architecture? Look no further – the recently released iSAQB Foundation Curriculum covers all your needs! A group of international software architecture experts has been working on optimizing and streamlining this systematic education path, resulting in the most systematic and practical curriculum ever. The 2021 update is the result of nearly 12 months…
The iSAQB provides a mock exam for the Foundation Level certification. This post shows how we moved this exam from docx format to AsciiDoc, facilitating collaboration and enabling automated generation of the required multilingual document variants. So, this is the story of how we moved from Microsoft Word to AsciiDoc for the collaboration on files…
In this brand-new podcast episode, Carola Lilienthal, Gernot Starke, and Eberhard Wolff sat together to discuss the iSAQB’s two-level certification scheme CPSA – Certified Professional for Software Architecture – in detail. What are the reasons for, and what is the actual meaning of the CPSA certification program? Which are the benefits for participants, but also…
Christoph Witte: Hello, my name is Christoph Witte. I’m a freelance journalist. I’m here in front of the booth of the International Software Architecture Qualification Board at the OOP conference in Munich. And I want to talk to Mischa Soujon. He’s working at IBM as a solution architect, making prototypes, and proof of concept for…
Christoph Witte: Hello, my name is Christoph Witte, I’m a freelance journalist, and we are here in front of the booth of the International Software Architecture Qualification Board at the OOP conference in Munich. Today I’d like to talk with Alexander Simon. He’s an IT consultant and owner of the company emax-it. And he’s an…
Christoph Witte: Hello, my name is Christoph Witte. I’m a freelance IT journalist, and I’m here at the booth of the international Software Architecture Qualification Board at the OOP conference in Munich. I want to talk to Gerhard Wanner. He’s a professor at the University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart, and he’s teaching students in software…