Название: Fundamentals of Software Architecture: A Modern Engineering Approach, 2nd Edition (Final Release)
Автор: Mark Richards, Neal Ford
Издательство: O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Год: 2025
Страниц: 615
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 20.8 MB

Salary surveys worldwide regularly place software architect in the top 10 best jobs, yet no real guide exists to help developers become architects. Until now. This updated edition provides a comprehensive overview of software architecture's many aspects, with five new chapters covering the latest insights from the field. Aspiring and existing architects alike will examine architectural characteristics, architectural patterns, component determination, diagramming architecture, governance, data, generative AI, team topologies, and many other topics.

Mark Richards and Neal Ford—hands-on practitioners who have taught software architecture classes professionally for years—focus on architecture principles that apply across all technology stacks. You'll explore software architecture in a modern light, taking into account all the innovations of the past decade.

This book examines:

Architecture styles and patterns: Microservices, modular monoliths, microkernels, layered architectures, and many more
Components: Identification, coupling, cohesion, partitioning, and granularity
Soft skills: Effective team management, collaboration, business engagement models, negotiation, presentations, and more
Modernity: Engineering practices and operational approaches that have changed radically in the past few years, including cloud considerations and generative AI
Architecture as an engineering discipline: Repeatable results, metrics, and concrete valuations that add rigor to software architecture

When we set out to write the second edition of Fundamentals of Software Architecture, we had a few ideas of things we wanted to flesh out and improve from the first edition, but like a lot of software projects, it kept growing. One of our met goals was to make the styles sections more consistent, making them more useful for comparisons. We also made some changes to our star ratings to add sections and a few new categories, and added new sections on cloud considerations, data topologies, team topologies, and governance for each architectural style. Along the way we made major additions to a number of chapters on popular topics, such as Chapters 15 and 18, and added a new chapter (Chapter 11) on the modular monolith architectural style. We also added several entirely new chapters covering architectural patterns in Chapter 20, the intersections of architecture in Chapter 26, and revisiting our laws of software architecture (of which there is a new corollary and a new law) in Chapter 27.