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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

Compiler warnings

While not necessarily a tool in itself, compiler warnings can be used and tweaked to achieve even better output from the one tool every C++ developer will be using: the C++ compiler.

Since the compiler can already do some deeper checks than those required by the standard, it is advised to take advantage of this possibility. When using a compiler such as GCC or Clang, the recommended setting involves -Wall -Wextra flags. This will generate much more diagnostics and result in warnings when your code doesn't follow the diagnostics. If you want to be really strict, you can also enable -Werrorwhich will turn all the warnings into errors and prevent the compilation of code that doesn't pass the enhanced diagnostics. If you want to keep strictly to the standards, there are the -pedantic and -pedantic-errors flags that will look for conformance against the standards.

When using CMake for building, you can use the following...