Gregg’s career includes over 30 years of multifaceted experience with a proven track record of architecting global large scale highly available consumer facing solutions in agile ways. He is recognized as a Technical Specialist by Ford Motor Company and held roles ranging from Developer to Architect. Most recently he has applied an Architect perspective while being an Agile evangelist and Agile Transformation Coach.
You can find Gregg here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/greggubben/
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Using web search, you’ll often find the most popular item isn’t actually a good demonstration of the principle. Here are resources I recommend:
- an abstract example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_inversion_principle
- a very good concrete example in Python https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/dependecy-inversion-principle-solid/
Resources for people working towards being a software architect:
- learn SOLID, with pictures! https://medium.com/backticks-tildes/the-s-o-l-i-d-principles-in-pictures-b34ce2f1e898
- GOF https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000SEIBB8?ref=KC_GS_GB_US
- eBay Marketplace Architecture: https://qconsf.com/sf2007/dl/QConSF2007/slides/public/RandyShoup_eBayArchPrinciples.pdf?path=/QConSF2007/slides/public/RandyShoup_eBayArchPrinciples.pdf
- Martin Fowler is a famous architect and here is his blog:
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