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Software Architecture with C++

By : Adrian Ostrowski, Piotr Gaczkowski
Book Image

Software Architecture with C++

By: Adrian Ostrowski, Piotr Gaczkowski

Overview of this book

Software architecture refers to the high-level design of complex applications. It is evolving just like the languages we use, but there are architectural concepts and patterns that you can learn to write high-performance apps in a high-level language without sacrificing readability and maintainability. If you're working with modern C++, this practical guide will help you put your knowledge to work and design distributed, large-scale apps. You'll start by getting up to speed with architectural concepts, including established patterns and rising trends, then move on to understanding what software architecture actually is and start exploring its components. Next, you'll discover the design concepts involved in application architecture and the patterns in software development, before going on to learn how to build, package, integrate, and deploy your components. In the concluding chapters, you'll explore different architectural qualities, such as maintainability, reusability, testability, performance, scalability, and security. Finally, you will get an overview of distributed systems, such as service-oriented architecture, microservices, and cloud-native, and understand how to apply them in application development. By the end of this book, you'll be able to build distributed services using modern C++ and associated tools to deliver solutions as per your clients' requirements.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
1
Section 1: Concepts and Components of Software Architecture
5
Section 2: The Design and Development of C++ Software
6
Architectural and System Design
10
Section 3: Architectural Quality Attributes
15
Section 4: Cloud-Native Design Principles
21
About Packt

Different approaches to a code review

You will most often conduct code reviews asynchronously. This means that the communication between the author of the change under review and the reviewers does not happen in real time. Instead, each of the actors posts their comments and suggestions at any given time. Once there are no more comments, the author reworks the original change and once again puts it under review. This can take as many rounds as necessary until everyone agrees that no further corrections are necessary.

When a change is particularly controversial and an asynchronous code review takes too much time, it is beneficial to conduct a code review synchronously. This means a meeting (in-person or remotely) to resolve any opposing views on the way forward. This will happen in particular when a change contradicts one of the initial decisions due to the new knowledge acquired while implementing the change.

There are some dedicated tools aimed solely at code reviews. More often, you...