Techie Brekkie #5 / Wearing the Architect's Hat / Alec McEachran

Front-End Software Architecture has become increasingly commoditized by the major tech companies. Major Front-End Frameworks are powerful and inform a lot of architectural decisions, but we constrain ourselves unnecessarily when we consider the limit of our architectural considerations the choice between (e.g.) React or Angular. Every problem domain is different, and good architecture simplifies and standardizes the development of solutions for that domain. We should all wear an architect hat, some of the time.

Alec is Principal Developer at KPV LAB, Edinburgh. He was previously Senior Software Engineer at Google (Firebase and YouTube), and worked in California during the 2010s Social Games gold-rush. In a previous life, he was a Mathematics and Philosophy high-school teacher.