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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)

Types of software architects

The role of a software architect can vary from organization to organization. You may have also heard of a variety of job titles related to software architects, such as the following:

  • Enterprise architect
  • Solution architect
  • Application architect
  • Data architect/Information architect
  • Solution architect
  • Security architect
  • Cloud architect

Some organizations have one or more architects who perform a combination of these roles. They may go by the title of software architect or by the title of one of these roles. In other organizations, different individuals play different architectural roles. Some companies organize their software architects so that they are in an architecture team. They collaborate with the team on architecture tasks but also work on other teams to design and implement software products.

This book does not focus on any one type of software...