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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)

Summary

When working as an architect in an organization, you should be aware of the various types of software architect roles. The various roles have similarities and differences in terms of their responsibilities and duties. If you are required to use a software development methodology that has already been selected for your organization, it is important to become familiar with it and its practices. If you are in a position to select the software development methodology, be sure to be knowledgeable about the choices so that an appropriate one can be selected for the project's needs.

Software architects use their expertise and experience to work with project management on estimates for tasks, project planning, and controlling and monitoring the project during its life cycle.

Due to communicating with a larger number of stakeholders and management, office politics is a reality...