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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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Functional requirements

The first group is the functional requirements. These are the ones that define what your system should do, or what functionality it should offer.

Remember that functionality does not always influence architecture, so you'll have to keep an eye on which of those requirements will actually dictate what your solution will look like.

Often, if a functional requirement has some qualities that must be met, it can become architecturally significant. Consider an app for merchants and visitors of the Dominican Fair, an annual event with music, various arts, and shops, happening in the city of Gdańsk. A few examples of functional requirements for it could be the following:

  • As a shopkeeper, I want to filter orders that contain a specific product.
  • Clicking the Subscribe button adds the customer to a list of notified watchers of a selected merchant.

The first of those requirements tells us we'll have to have a component for tracking orders and products with...