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Grady Booch

Grady Booch is an American software engineer, best known for developing the Unified Modeling Language (UML) with Ivar Jacobson and… more

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I’m not anti-AI.

I am, however, anti the rapacious tech bros who selfishly hype AI for the purpose of increasing their wealth and power at the expense of our humanity.

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In two weeks:

System Design and Software Architecture Workshop:

Oct 20-22 and Oct 27-Oct 29, 2025 at 11 am - 3:30 pm Eastern Time (live remote)

Info/enroll: ti.to/bredemeyer/s...

Sample sections (think FREE pdf ebook):

www.ruthmalan.com/Bredemeyer/2...

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Apparently, reading comprehension is not your strength.

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In each of these cases, those differences manifest themselves both in the design decision that shape the form and function of that system as well as the process and the organization of the team that creates it.

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There is a vast difference in the architecture of a software-intensive system whose failure may result in human death versus one whose failure may yield only economic or temporal costs.

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There is a vast difference in the architecture of a software-intensive system that is disposable versus one that is expected to endure.

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There is a vast difference in the architecture of a software-intensive system that has only a few users versus one that may have millions upon millions of users with global, elastic, and chaotic operation.

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There is a vast difference in the architecture of a software-intensive system whose operation requires a hard real time response versus one that operates within the envelop of human patience.

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There is a vast difference in the architecture of a software-intensive system whose output must always be accurate and precise versus one whose output can just be good enough.

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Sunset.

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