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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 view

If your software is being developed as part of a bigger system, especially with teams that don't communicate on a daily basis, you should include a functional view (as in the 4+1 model).

One important and often overlooked aspect of documenting your architecture is the definition of the interfaces you provide, despite it being one of the most important things to describe. Whether it's an interface between two of your components or an entry point for the outside world, you should take the time to document it clearly, describing the semantics of objects and calls, as well as usage examples (which you can sometimes reuse as tests).

Another great benefit of including a functional view in your documentation is that it clarifies the responsibilities between components of your system. Each team developing the system should understand where the boundaries are and who's responsible for developing which functionality. All requirements should be explicitly mapped to...