A newsletter by Lee Atchison — exploring how technology’s tides shape everyday life.

Who is Lee Atchison?

Lee Atchison is a CTO, Chief Software Architect, author, and thought leader. Lee is the author of multiple books, including the O’Reilly Media titles Architecting for Scale and Overcoming IT Complexity. He is the co-author of Business Breakthrough 3.0.

Lee has developed numerous courses for O’Reilly Media and LinkedIn Learning. He’s currently developing a series of courses for his own Atchison Academy learning center. Lee writes articles regularly and has been a featured writer at InfoWorld, Cloud Native Now, Container Journal, and Diginomica.

Lee is the creator and host of the podcast and newsletter Software Architecture Insights which provides insight into the latest trends in IT and software architecture for software architects and tech leaders. Lee is a guest co-host on the highly popular technology podcast Software Engineering Daily.

Lee has worked for major technology corporations including Amazon.com, AWS Web Services, Hewlett Packard, and New Relic.

Lee has consulted and advised major corporations including Bank of America, Seagate, Walt Disney Company, and Major League Baseball.

Lee has written books and ebooks as a thought leader for major technology companies such as Redis, Uptycs, F5, New Relic, and Hewlett Packard.

Lee is a CTO and Software Architect. He's been a consultant, advisor, and tech leader for major AI companies, including Product Genius.

Lee has travelled the globe speaking on tech topics including Cloud Computing, Application Scaling, Application Reliability, and Artificial Intelligence.