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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)

DevOps

DevOps is the set of tools, practices, and culture that enable both the development and operations terms to work together during the entire life cycle of building software applications. DevOps enables the continuous delivery of software, allowing organizations to respond quickly to changing market opportunities and allowing them to get customer feedback quickly.

DevOps involves collaboration between teams and the automation of processes to achieve a common goal of adding value to customers' experiences by delivering software changes quickly and with high quality. DevOps requires a cultural change within an organization, along with the use of new technologies.

Shift left is a common term associated with DevOps. The idea is to perform tasks earlier in the life cycle, or to shift them left in the timeline. This term became popular with testing (shift, left testing), meaning...