Dear Software & AI Architect

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Welcome to the Leanpub Launch video for Dear Software & AI Architect: A Personal Guide to Leadership, Architecture, and AI Engineering https://leanpub.com/deararchitect by Shweta Vohra! 0:00 Shweta Vohra introduces herself and her 25-year career journey from embedded systems to lead architect 1:35 Overview of the book: personal guidance for software and AI architects, including 50+ caselets from experience 2:23 Who the book is for: existing architects and those moving into AI architect roles 3:09 Grady Booch's foreword and the question of what an AI architect does 3:56 Why the civil architecture analogy breaks down for software and AI architecture 4:41 The moving ship analogy for platform engineering and continuous architectural change 5:30 The three fundamentals of architecture that persist into the AI era: structure, decisions, and trade-offs 6:17 AI-native design thinking and the AI SDLC: mixing determinism with non-determinism 8:35 The oil-and-water tension between determinism and non-determinism in AI systems 9:25 Human-in-the-loop scalability limits and the challenge of governing AI systems from the outside About the Book Dear Software and AI Architects, What does it really mean to be an architect in the age of AI? The role is changing. Yet the day-to-day reality of architecting intelligent systems is still taking shape. With a foreword by Grady Booch, UML co-creator, Dear Software and AI Architect brings together enduring architectural thinking and the realities of building in a rapidly changing AI era. After more than two decades in the field, I wrote this book from the experience of doing the work: navigating uncertainty, making consequential trade-offs, and helping teams turn complex ideas into systems that deliver. If you are a software architect, or stepping into the role of AI architect, this shift is already shaping your path. We have adapted before - from monoliths to services, and from infrastructure to cloud. Now we face another transition: designing intelligent systems that must not only work, but also be understood, governed, and trusted. Dear Software and AI Architect brings together practical guidance, field stories, and lessons learned to help you navigate that transition. It explores how to combine enduring software craftsmanship with AI intelligence, work with AI as a partner in your craft, and apply architectural thinking across teams and enterprises. Inside, you’ll find 50+ caselets, perspectives from expert voices, and the Architect’s V-Impact Canvas - practical tools and ideas to help you build with context, make better trade-offs, lead with clarity, and shape systems worthy of trust. About the Author Shweta Vohra is a Lead Architect at Booking.com, author, speaker, inventor, and InfoQ editor with more than two decades of experience shaping complex software, cloud, platform, and AI systems. Her work sits at the intersection of software architecture, platform engineering, and AI native systems, with a particular interest in turning emerging technology into practical, trustworthy systems that deliver real business value. Shweta is the author of Decoding Platform Engineering Patterns and Dear Software and AI Architect, which features a foreword by Grady Booch, UML co creator. She holds multiple patents across cloud, containers, observability, and AI/ML, and shares her thinking through international conferences, InfoQ, publications, YouTube, and her community, The AI Architects Hub. At the heart of her work is a simple belief: great architects do more than design systems. They create clarity where complexity and ambiguity meet. This is the version I would use on Amazon, Leanpub, speaker profiles, and your website. The last sentence is particularly strong because it leaves people with your philosophy rather than another credential. Follow the author here! https://x.com/shwetavohra1 Thank you for watching, please like and leave a comment, we'd love to hear from you! Please Subscribe and Follow! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/leanpub X: https://x.com/leanpub Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leanpub Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leanpub Create Your Own Leanpub Book! You can create your own book anytime here: https://leanpub.com/create/book Here's the tutorial showing how to write and publish a Leanpub book in your browser (it's free!): https://help.leanpub.com/en/articles/2932527-getting-started-writing-a-book-in-leanpub-s-web-browser-writing-mode If you're a Leanpub author and you'd like to submit your own Launch video for us to publish, or if you'd like to record a Launch video with Len, please go here: https://leanpub.com/launch. #books #leanpublishing #selfpublishing #leanpub #writing #softwarearchitecture #ai #softwareengineering #SoftwareArchitecture #AIArchitect #PlatformEngineering #AIEngineering #ArchitectureTradeoffs