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Neal Ford

Neal Ford

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Director, Software Architect, and Meme Wrangler at ThoughtWorks. Author of Building Evolutionary Architectures and Fundamentals of Software Architecture.
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The Intersection of Fitness Function driven Architecture and Agentic AI

by neal-ford

MCP enables enterprise architects to express architectural intent without implementation details, solving the brittleness problem that has plagued fitness function governance at scale.

fitness-functionsoftware-architectureagentic-aimcpenterprise-architectureJan 11, 2026

Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change

by neal-ford, rebecca-parsons, patrick-kua

A framework for designing software architectures that evolve over time, using fitness functions to protect important characteristics while enabling incremental change.

software-architectureevolutionary-architecturefitness-functiondesign-patternsJan 3, 2026

Building Evolutionary Architectures

by neal-ford

Evolutionary architecture supports guided incremental change through fitness functions—automated tests that validate architecture characteristics like performance, security, and structural integrity.

software-architectureevolutionary-architecturefitness-functionmicroservicegovernanceJan 3, 2026
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