Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach

Salary surveys all over the world steadily place software architect in the top 10 best jobs, yet no real guide exists to lend a hand developers turn out to be architects. Until now. This book provides the first comprehensive overview of software architecture’s many aspects. Aspiring and existing architects alike will examine architectural characteristics, architectural patterns, component determination, diagramming and presenting architecture, evolutionary architecture, and plenty of other topics.

Mark Richards and Neal Ford—hands-on practitioners who have taught software architecture classes professionally for years—focal point on architecture principles that apply across all technology stacks. You’ll explore software architecture in a modern light, taking into consideration the entire innovations of the past decade.

This book examines:

• Architecture patterns: The technical basis for plenty of architectural decisions
• Components: Identification, coupling, cohesion, partitioning, and granularity
• Soft skills: Effective team management, meetings, negotiation, presentations, and more
• Modernity: Engineering practices and operational approaches that have changed radically previously few years
• Architecture as an engineering discipline: Repeatable results, metrics, and concrete valuations that add rigor to software architecture