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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

Generating diagrams from code

If you want to get to know your code structure without taking an initial deep dive into the sources, you might be interested in tools that generate diagrams from code.

One such tool is CppDepend. It enables you to create various dependency diagrams between different parts of your sources. What's more, it allows you to query and filter the code based on various parameters. Whether you want to just grasp how the code is structured, discover what the dependencies are between different software components and how tightly they're coupled, or want to quickly locate parts with the most technical debt, you might be interested in this tool. It's proprietary, but offers a fully functional trial.

Some diagramming tools allow you to create code from class diagrams and class diagrams from code. Enterprise Architect enables you to take your class and interface diagrams and generate code in multiple languages. C++ is one of these, and allows UML class diagrams...