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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)

Domain-driven design

Understanding the domain of your software application is part of what is necessary to discover the appropriate architecture for any solutions you need to develop. The domain is the subject and body of knowledge on which the software will be applied.

The term domain-driven design (DDD) was coined by Eric Evans in his book, Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software. DDD is an approach to developing software that aims to make the software better by focusing on the domain. It has a set of concepts and patterns that have successfully been used to solve problems and build great software.

DDD is particularly useful for large software applications that have complex and sizable models. DDD helps you to solve complex problems. Even if you decide not to follow DDD fully while architecting your applications, some DDD concepts may be helpful to...