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Cloud Application Architecture Patterns

Cloud Application Architecture Patterns

Congratulations to Joe for publishing his new book Cloud Application Architecture Patterns—Designing, Building, and Modernizing for the Cloud with Kyle Brown and Bobby Woolf. This book was the results of years of collaboration with many people where the authors ultimately evolved into book published by O'Reilly.

Joe flew into Raleigh North Carolina to celebrate the official release of the book with my co-authors to sign the books. Book Signing

You can find the book on Amazon here!

How to Create Extraordinary Software (4º edição)

Creating Extraordinary SoftwareJoe will once again be in São Paulo and is collaborating and organizing an event with USP Universidade de São Paulo on "How to create extraordinary software" on June 10th, 2025. We will have talks by Lucas Cavalcanti, Marcela Porto, Lucas Ferreira, Camila Campos, Marden Neubert, and Alfredo Goldman. Joe will be taking advantage of the meeting to launch my new book on Cloud Application Architecture Patterns — Designing, Building, and Modernizing for the Cloud. Details of the book can be found here.

Joe is looking forward to participating in the third edition of this event. It will be in person and online. You can register for free here.

Agile Brazil 2024

Marden and JoeJoe attended Agile Brazil with his good friend and colleague Marden Neubert where they gave a talk about Architecting Agility. The event was from Oct 30th to Nov 1st, 2024. It was held in Aracaju, Brazil. It was a successful event with many good interactions and more. Afterwards, he traveled to Sampa to collaborate with many friends and colleagues at USP and more...

More details about Agile Brazil 2024 can be found here!

Hillside named Joe Fellow

Hillside Fellowship Award

Congratulations to Joe for being presented with the Hillside Fellowship award at the 2023 PLoP event at Allerton, PLoP 2023.

The Hillside Fellowship Program recognizes members of The Hillside Group who have made exceptional contributions to the Hillside community and the Patterns community at large. The title of Hillside Fellow denotes an outstanding member who has consistently and repeatedly: 

  • provided excellence in contributions to the patterns body of knowledge
  • advance the arts, sciences, and practices of patterns and pattern languages
  • demonstrated exemplary mentoring and leadership
  • served to achieve the objectives of Hillside
Click here for more information about the Hillside Fellowship Award!

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