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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)

Summary

Software applications today have expectations and requirements that are different from the past. There are demands for greater availability, flexibility, fault tolerance, scalability, and reliability. Continuous delivery and ease of deployment may be requirements for organizations that want to increase their agility in order to keep their software applications closely aligned with their business goals and market opportunities. We examined how MSA, serverless architecture, and cloud-native applications can meet these types of demands and requirements.

In the next chapter, we will take a look at cross-cutting concerns. Most software applications have common functionality that is needed throughout the application, including in different layers of the application. This functionality is called cross-cutting concerns, and we will take a look at different types of crosscutting...