These are the best podcast/talks I've seen/listen to recently: Where do great architectures come from? (Mary Poppendieck) [Architecture, Architecture patterns, Inspirational] Mary Poppendieck walks you through a few of the more dramatic architectural changes, looking at what triggered them and how well they worked out. Interesting keynote to understand the fundamental architectural characteristics of software systems (redundancy, isolation, locality, security). The elephant in t...