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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)

Service-oriented architecture

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an architectural pattern for developing software systems by creating loosely coupled, interoperable services that work together to automate business processes. A service is a part of a software application that performs a specific task, providing functionality to other parts of the same software application or to other software applications. Some examples of service consumers include web applications, mobile applications, desktop applications, and other services.

SOA achieves a SoC, which is a design principle that separates a software system into parts, with each part addressing a distinct concern. We discussed SoC in Chapter 6, Software Development Principles and Practices. A key aspect of SOA is that it decomposes application logic into smaller units that can be reused and distributed. By decomposing a large...