Simon Brown is the author of the Leanpub book Software Architecture for Developers: Technical leadership and the balance with agility. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Simon about his background and career, software architecture and the C4 model for visualising software architecture, and how the first version of his Leanpub book was published with just five pages of content, and became a bestseller as he wrote it and published new versions with additional content over time.

This interview was recorded on September 20, 2022.

The full audio for the interview is here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/leanpub_podcasts/FM236-Simon-Brown-2022-09-20.mp3. The Frontmatter podcast is available on our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/leanpub, in Apple Podcasts here https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/frontmatter/id517117137, on Spotify here https://open.spotify.com/show/00DiOFL9aJPIx8c2ALxUdz, and almost everywhere people listen to podcasts.

This interview has been edited for conciseness and clarity.