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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)

Software Architecture in an Organization

In the previous chapter, we discussed software architecture and the role of the software architect. In this chapter, we will explore those topics further, but in the context of an organization.

Software systems are developed to satisfy the business goals of an organization. Many software architects work as part of an organization. As a result, the organization's business goals, objectives, stakeholders, project management, and processes greatly affect the software architect and their work.

This chapter focuses on topics a software architect should be familiar with when working within an organization. We will take a look at the various types of software architecture roles that are commonly found in organizations, and the software development methodologies they adopt. You'll gain a good understanding of how you might be expected...