Juval Löwy

System architect, and a really good one at that.

Known for

“#Righting software”, name on his courses, masters, workshops, and more. All orienting around teaching out the proper way to design system, as in his words “the entire software world is broken”, because everyone is doing it wrong.
Nominated “Software legend” by Microsoft, a title only 6 people has received.
Played a big role in designing and reviewing C# and WCF.
Brought .NET into microservices via WCF.
Founder of IDesign.

Famous quotes

“Allure of the free lunch#” (J. Löwy, 2021)

“Everyone is doing software wrong, until they have met me” (J. Löwy, 2021)

References

J. Löwy (January 27, 2021), “Righting Software - System Design” [Workshop], NDC London 2021.

2021-01-28

#Righting software
- A famous series of courses, workshops, podcast episodes, and books created by the system architect #Juval Löwy, all carrying the same name and teaching on the same topic: To teach the software architects of the world how to properly design software systems.
#Allure of the free lunch
- This is a common phrase told by #Juval Löwy. In other words: “There is no such thing as a free lunch”, or “You cannot add value without sweating” (J. Löwy, January 27, 2021).

Volatility decomposition
- There are many ways to design software. According to the author #Juval Löwy, using volatility-based decomposition is the perferred strategy, as he talks about in his series of #Righting software.
Functional decomposition
- Designing an architecture by inspecting the required functions. Functions comes first in functional decomposition. This is discussed in #Juval Löwy’s course on #Righting software about how not to design software.

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