Barry’s workshop was the most impactful I’ve attended. His clarity and passion brought to life a revolutionary perspective on software architecture, making success feel intentional rather than magical.

12 years ago I watched Alberto’s event storming as it came to life, attending Vaughn Vernons iddd course.
Now 12 years later, it feels like we are on the brink to something new with Residuality Theory. Well done, Avanscorperta!
Grab a copy of Barry’s book. Attend the workshop. A simple powerful way to discover and make architecture choices explicit. Would recommend Barry as trainer any day, super deep knowledge about software architecture, with a boatload of Irish sarcasm and wide perspective on our industry. Tomorrow I will start walking the path, apply stressors, moving architectures towards criticality. Always with Barry on my shoulder supporting me, whispering, you are “wrong”, but heading in the right direction:) You cannot beat complexity, but you can stack the odds, let Barry help you.

Attending the Advanced Software Architecture workshop has been a turning point for me.
Barry’s approach opened my mind to new ways of thinking about architecture: more adaptive, more contextual, and definitely more human. But it didn’t just change how I see software architecture; I’d also consider it a course that helps you grow on a personal level.
It gave me tools not only to deal with complexity in systems but also to improve my soft skills, my way of thinking, and how I approach problems in general. I left the workshop with practical insights and the motivation to revisit some of the decisions I’ve made in the past. If you’re serious about becoming a better architect and a better thinker, this experience is absolutely worth it.

Barry’s core idea of residuality is pretty simple, but absolutely not trivial nor legacy.
The fancy takeaway is that, even with its simplicity, it enables a very effective new approach to system architecture evaluation and review. In the meantime, he defines an easily computable numerical metric that allows you to measure whether your reviewed solution is improving or not compared to the previous iteration.
Being simple and effective makes it really worth investigating, even if adopting it may require reviewing—and possibly dropping—some legacy tools that have repeatedly failed to deliver the expected insights, regardless of the amount of praise and words spent preaching them.

I loved the time spent with such remarkable colleagues and Barry O’Reilly as a mentor during the Advanced Software Architecture Workshop – Design software systems for complex business environments with Residuality Theory, organized by Avanscoperta.
The certificate of attendance is a little thing compared to other amount and quality of notions Barry can transmit, and I’m glad to Avanscoperta for bringing him to Italy. This has been really going “in Avanscoperta”!

This has been a fun and challenging experience. It was challenging because it is awesome to see some scientific rigour applied to our industry, where we still tend to make decisions based on intuition.
This has nicely messed up my mind in very fun ways and leaves me hungry to discover more.
I look forward to letting these thoughts mess with the quick assumptions we’re used to making and to continuing to change my perspectives.
It was also great to do this workshop with a very nice crown. I deeply enjoyed the debates and chats, which added to the already high value of the experience.

I would recommend this workshop to those who already have a fair amount of experience with the design of distributed systems of a certain complexity and are looking for tools for concrete evaluation of architectures, and new visions of design. It is a workshop that should be approached with a very open mind.