Person

Martin Fowler

Software writer and methodologist on architecture, refactoring, and how teams evolve systems without losing coherence.

Why this matters

Fowler connects craft discipline to organizational learning—how codebases and teams carry sedimented decisions forward.

Works

article

Integration Metadata.

Fowler, Martin. "Integration Metadata." https://martinfowler.com/articles/integrationMetadata.html.

book

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

Fowler, Martin. *Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code*. 2nd ed. Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2019.

Related books

Book

Coupling

Cohesion, Consequence, and the Architecture of Responsibility

A practical framework for seeing where systems are tightly joined, where they drift apart, and how those coupling choices shape accountability over time.