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Systems Architecture

By Grady Booch

By Grady Booch on
July 26, 2010

cityscape with computer chipsIn this Episode

All complex systems fail, by some measure of the word "fail," with consequences ranging from benign to catastrophic. Grady examines the process of to triage in the face of a failing system.

From IEEE Software's Issue No. 04 — July/Aug. 2010


Grady Booch

About Grady Booch

Grady Booch is a Chief Scientist of Software Engineering at IBM. He is recognized internationally for improving the art and the science of software development and has served as architect and architectural mentor for numerous complex software-intensive systems around the world. The author of six best-selling books and several hundred articles on computing, he has lectured on topics as diverse as software methodology and the morality of computing. He is an IBM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, an ACM Fellow, a World Technology Network Fellow, and a Software Development Forum Visionary. Learn more about Booch.

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