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Acknowledgments;
Chapter 1: Don't Put Your Resume Ahead of the Requirements;
Chapter 2: Simplify Essential Complexity; Diminish Accidental Complexity;
Chapter 3: Chances Are, Your Biggest Problem Isn't Technical;
Chapter 4: Communication Is King; Clarity and Leadership, Its Humble Servants;
Chapter 5: Application Architecture Determines Application Performance;
Chapter 6: Seek the Value in Requested Capabilities;
Chapter 7: Stand Up!;
Chapter 8: Everything Will Ultimately Fail;
Chapter 9: You're Negotiating More Often Than You Think;
Chapter 10: Quantify;
Chapter 11: One Line of Working Code Is Worth 500 of Specification;
Chapter 12: There Is No One-Size-Fits-All Solution;
Chapter 13: It's Never Too Early to Think About Performance;
Chapter 14: Architecting Is About Balancing;
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Chapter 15: Commit-and-Run Is a Crime;
Chapter 16: There Can Be More Than One;
Chapter 17: Business Drives;
Chapter 18: Simplicity Before Generality, Use Before Reuse;
Chapter 19: Architects Must Be Hands On;
Chapter 20: Continuously Integrate;
Chapter 21: Avoid Scheduling Failures;
Chapter 22: Architectural Tradeoffs;
Chapter 23: Database As a Fortress;
Chapter 24: Use Uncertainty As a Driver;
Chapter 25: Warning: Problems in Mirror May Be Larger Than They Appear;
Chapter 26: Reuse Is About People and Education, Not Just Architecture;
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Chapter 27: There Is No 'I' in Architecture;
Chapter 28: Get the 1,000-Foot View;
Chapter 29: Try Before Choosing;
Chapter 30: Understand the Business Domain;
Chapter 31: Programming Is an Act of Design;
Chapter 32: Give Developers Autonomy;
Chapter 33: Time Changes Everything;
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Chapter 34: "Software Architect" Has Only Lowercase a's; Deal with It;
Chapter 35: Scope Is the Enemy of Success;
Chapter 36: Value Stewardship Over Showmanship;
Chapter 37: Software Architecture Has Ethical Consequences;
Chapter 38: Skyscrapers Aren't Scalable;
Chapter 39: Heterogeneity Wins;
Chapter 40: It's All About Performance;
Chapter 41: Engineer in the White Spaces;
Chapter 42: Talk the Talk;
Chapter 43: Context Is King;
Chapter 44: Dwarves, Elves, Wizards, and Kings;
Chapter 45: Learn from Architects of Buildings;
Chapter 46: Fight Repetition;
Chapter 47: Welcome to the Real World;
Chapter 48: Don't Control, but Observe;
Chapter 49: Janus the Architect;
Chapter 50: Architects' Focus Is on the Boundaries and Interfaces;
Chapter 51: Empower Developers;
Chapter 52: Record Your Rationale;
Chapter 53: Challenge Assumptions-Especially Your Own;
Chapter 54: Share Your Knowledge and Experiences;
Chapter 55: Pattern Pathology;
Chapter 56: Don't Stretch the Architecture Metaphors;
Chapter 57: Focus on Application Support and Maintenance;
Chapter 58: Prepare to Pick Two;
Chapter 59: Prefer Principles, Axioms, and Analogies to Opinion and Taste;
Chapter 60: Start with a Walking Skeleton;
Chapter 61: It Is All About The Data;
Chapter 62: Make Sure the Simple Stuff Is Simple;
Chapter 63: Before Anything, an Architect Is a Developer;
Chapter 64: The ROI Variable;
Chapter 65: Your System Is Legacy; Design for It;
Chapter 66: If There Is Only One Solution, Get a Second Opinion;
Chapter 67: Understand the Impact of Change;
Chapter 68: You Have to Understand Hardware, Too;
Chapter 69: Shortcuts Now Are Paid Back with Interest Later;
Chapter 70: "Perfect" Is the Enemy of "Good Enough";
Chapter 71: Avoid "Good Ideas";
Chapter 72: Great Content Creates Great Systems;
Chapter 73: The Business Versus the Angry Architect;
Chapter 74: Stretch Key Dimensions to See What Breaks;
Chapter 75: If You Design It, You Should Be Able to Code It;
Chapter 76: A Rose by Any Other Name Will End Up As a Cabbage;
Chapter 77: Stable Problems Get High-Quality Solutions;
Chapter 78: It Takes Diligence;
Chapter 79: Take Responsibility for Your Decisions;
Chapter 80: Don't Be Clever;
Chapter 81: Choose Your Weapons Carefully, Relinquish Them Reluctantly;
Chapter 82: Your Customer Is Not Your Customer;
Chapter 83: It Will Never Look Like That;
Chapter 84: Choose Frameworks That Play Well with Others;
Chapter 85: Make a Strong Business Case;
Chapter 86: Control the Data, Not Just the Code;
Chapter 87: Pay Down Your Technical Debt;
Chapter 88: Don't Be a Problem Solver;
Chapter 89: Build Systems to Be Zuhanden;
Chapter 90: Find and Retain Passionate Problem Solvers;
Chapter 91: Software Doesn't Really Exist;
Chapter 92: Learn a New Language;
Chapter 93: You Can't Future-Proof Solutions;
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Chapter 94: The User Acceptance Problem;
Chapter 95: The Importance of Consommé;
Chapter 96: For the End User, the Interface Is the System;
Chapter 97: Great Software Is Not Built, It Is Grown;
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