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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)

Types of cross-cutting concerns

There are a variety of different types of cross-cutting concerns that may be part of a software application. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but some common examples of cross-cutting concerns include the following:

  • Caching
  • Configuration management
  • Auditing
  • Security
  • Exception management
  • Logging

Caching

Leveraging the use of caching in a software application is a common way to improve performance. It may be used in a variety of places where data is being read, making it a cross-cutting concern for the application.

A reusable caching service should provide the ability to perform operations, such as putting data in a cache, getting data out of a cache, and setting policies on how and...