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Software Architect's Handbook

By : Joseph Ingeno
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Software Architect's Handbook

By: Joseph Ingeno

Overview of this book

The Software Architect’s Handbook is a comprehensive guide to help developers, architects, and senior programmers advance their career in the software architecture domain. This book takes you through all the important concepts, right from design principles to different considerations at various stages of your career in software architecture. The book begins by covering the fundamentals, benefits, and purpose of software architecture. You will discover how software architecture relates to an organization, followed by identifying its significant quality attributes. Once you have covered the basics, you will explore design patterns, best practices, and paradigms for efficient software development. The book discusses which factors you need to consider for performance and security enhancements. You will learn to write documentation for your architectures and make appropriate decisions when considering DevOps. In addition to this, you will explore how to design legacy applications before understanding how to create software architectures that evolve as the market, business requirements, frameworks, tools, and best practices change over time. By the end of this book, you will not only have studied software architecture concepts but also built the soft skills necessary to grow in this field.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)

Becoming a Better Software Architect

Once you advance in your career and become a software architect, the process of self-improvement and the advancement of your skills must continue. The role of software architect is a challenging one and the field of software development is constantly changing. Software architects must keep up with the latest trends and ensure that their skills remain relevant.

This chapter focuses on various ways that you can become a better software architect. From learning new things, participating in open source projects, writing your own blog, trying new technologies, and attending conferences, let's dive into how we can improve as software architects.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Practicing continuous learning
  • Participating in open source projects
  • Writing your own blog
  • Spending time teaching others
  • Trying new technologies
  • ...