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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)

Cross-Cutting Concerns

All software applications have various concerns, which are groupings of logic and functionality. Some of that functionality, known as cross-cutting concerns, is used in multiple areas of the application.

In this chapter, we will explore cross-cutting concerns and some general guidelines for handling them. We will take a look at different ways to implement them, including using dependency injection (DI), the decorator pattern, and aspect-oriented programming (AOP).

We'll go over some examples of cross-cutting concerns as well as some of the special considerations that should be made when dealing with cross-cutting concerns within microservices.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Cross-cutting concerns
  • General guidelines for cross-cutting concerns
  • Implementing cross-cutting concerns with the use of DI and the decorator pattern
  • Aspect...