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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)

Serverless architecture

Serverless architecture allows the rapid development of software applications that can handle various levels of traffic in production environments. The term serverless refers to the fact that compute services are provided without requiring you to manage or administer servers. Your code is executed on demand, as it is needed.

Utilizing compute services in this way is similar to how cloud storage is used. With cloud storage, you do not need to manage physical hardware and you do not need to know where the data is stored. You use as much or as little storage as you need.

Similarly, with serverless architecture, you do not need to deal with physical servers, and the complexity of how compute resources are provided is hidden from you. Software applications use as much or as little compute capacity as they need.

Serverless architecture is maturing and its use...