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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
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Summary

Congratulations on reaching the end of the chapter! Using modern C++ is not limited to understanding the recently added language features. Your applications will run in production. As an architect, it's also your choice to make sure the runtime environment matches requirements. In the few previous chapters, we described some popular trends in distributed applications. We hope this knowledge will help you decide which one is the best fit for your product.

Going cloud-native brings a lot of benefits and can automate a good chunk of your workflow. Switching custom-made tools to industry standards makes your software more resilient and easier to update. In this chapter, we have covered the pros, cons, and use cases of popular cloud-native solutions.

Some, such as distributed tracing with Jaeger, bring immediate benefits to most projects. Others, such as Istio or Kubernetes, perform best in large-scale operations. After reading this chapter, you should have sufficient knowledge...