You are joining a meeting where someone presents a design review for a big new feature. You point out that something is a bad idea and they ask you why. The whole room is now looking at you and you just say "I JUST KNOW it's not going to work", but you don't know how you know.

I went through a lot of struggle, trying to understand how to turn the gut feelings into clear explanations and system overviews. along the way, I came up with several practical exercises that can be done during any programming task, any organization culture, to improve architecture Skills.

When My blog post on this subject hit over 40K views I decided to turn it into this talk.

https://levelup.gitconnected.com/how-to-improve-software-architecture-skills-daily-6f362d4e6493

Bio:
Ella‌ ‌Sheer‌ ‌is a software engineer ‌in LiveU, working on real-time ‌multimedia‌ ‌system‌s, which are infamously known for their nasty bugs. She ‌is‌ ‌in‌ ‌love‌ ‌with‌ ‌software‌ ‌architecture and‌ when not writing code, Ella is writing her blog “sheer engineer”.

Previous lecture "The Art of Debugging":
​was given at Belpy2020 and WomenOnStage1. link to recording:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ompp7IuMdT8

my profile on WomenOnStage& sessionize:
https://www.womenonstage.net/speakers/%E2%80%AAElla-sheer%E2%80%AC%E2%80%8F
https://sessionize.com/ella-sheer/