A comprehensive guide to exploring software architecture concepts and implementing best practices

Key Features

Enhance your skills to grow your career as a software architect

Design efficient software architectures using patterns and best practices

Learn how software architecture relates to an organization as well as software development methodology

Book Description

The Software Architect's Handbook is a comprehensive guide to help developers, architects, and senior programmers advance their career in the software architecture domain. This book takes you through all the important concepts, right from design principles to different considerations at various stages of your career in software architecture.

The book begins by covering the fundamentals, benefits, and purpose of software architecture. You will discover how software architecture relates to an organization, followed by identifying its significant quality attributes. Once you have covered the basics, you will explore design patterns, best practices, and paradigms for efficient software development.

The book discusses which factors you need to consider for performance and security enhancements. You will learn to write documentation for your architectures and make appropriate decisions when considering DevOps. In addition to this, you will explore how to design legacy applications before understanding how to create software architectures that evolve as the market, business requirements, frameworks, tools, and best practices change over time.

By the end of this book, you will not only have studied software architecture concepts but also built the soft skills necessary to grow in this field.

What you will learn

Design software architectures using patterns and best practices

Explore the different considerations for designing software architecture

Discover what it takes to continuously improve as a software architect

Create loosely coupled systems that can support change

Understand DevOps and how it affects software architecture

Integrate, refactor, and re-architect legacy applications