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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)

Spending time teaching others

A productive and rewarding way to become a better software architect is to devote time to teaching other developers and software architects. When you teach others a particular subject, it deepens your own level of understanding for that subject.

In your preparations for teaching, you will be reviewing material and consulting others. As part of that process, you may learn something new or be reminded of something when you had forgotten. There is also a good chance that you will learn something from the people you are teaching.

Teaching others may improve your organization and interpersonal skills. Preparing for a session in which you will be teaching requires you to organize it and the interaction with your students can improve your interpersonal skills. These types of skills are related to others, such as leadership, and may ultimately help to advance...