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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)

Cloud-native applications

Deploying a software application to the cloud does not make it cloud-native. It is about how the software is designed and implemented, not just where it is run. Cloud-native applications have been designed and developed from the ground up to be deployed in the cloud. In doing so, applications can take full advantage of their deployment environment.

In modern application development, the development team needs to have more knowledge about, and a vested interest in, how their application runs in production. Similarly, the operations team must be able to work with the development team to improve upon, over time, how the application is deployed and executes in a production environment.

Reasons to move to the cloud

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