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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

Logging in C++ with spdlog

One of the popular and fast logging libraries for C++ is spdlog. It's built using C++11 and can be used either as a header-only library or as a static library (which reduces compile time).

Some interesting features of spdlog include the following:

  • Formatting
  • Multiple sinks:
    • Rotating files
    • Console
    • Syslog
    • Custom (implemented as a single function)
  • Multi-threaded and single-threaded versions
  • Optional asynchronous mode

One feature that might be missing from spdlog is the direct support for Logstash or Fluentd. If you want to use one of these aggregators, it is still possible to configure spdlog with file sink output and use Filebeat or Fluent Bit to forward the file contents to the appropriate aggregator.