Martin Fowler

Name: Martin Fowler

Born: 1963 in Walsall, England

Part of the “Agile Alliance,” a group of 17 software developers who published the “Manifesto for Agile Software Development” in 2001. The manifesto promotes a “cross-functional” team structure for software development. Instead of large, segregated departments of specialists, it suggests creating smaller teams of individuals with varied experience and expertise.
Developed a new approach to code refactoring.
Proponent of “microservices,” web applications which communicate with each other like processes in Unix.

Significant publications

Refactoring: Ruby Edition (2013).
NoSQL Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Emerging World of Polyglot Persistence (2012).
Domain-Specific Languages (2010).
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (2002).
Planning Extreme Programming (2000).
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (1999).
UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language (1997).
Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models (1996).

“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.”