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A quick start guide to learning essential software architecture tools, frameworks, design patterns, and best practices Key Features Apply critical thinking to your software development and architecture practices and bring structure to your approach using well-known IT standards Understand the impact of cloud-native approaches on software architecture Integrate the latest technology trends into your architectural designs Book Description Are you a...
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Salary surveys worldwide regularly place a software architect in the top 10 best jobs, yet no real guide exists to help developers become architects. Until now. This book provides the first comprehensive overview of software architecture's many aspects. Aspiring and existing architects alike will examine architectural characteristics, architectural patterns, component determination, diagramming and presenting architecture, evolutionary architecture,...
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Designing Software Architectures will teach you how to design any software architecture in a systematic, predictable, repeatable, and cost-effective way. This book introduces a practical methodology for architecture design that any professional software engineer can use, provides structured methods supported by reusable chunks of design knowledge, and includes rich case studies that demonstrate how to use the methods. Using realistic examples, you'll...
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"Becoming a software architect is a longed-for career upgrade for many software developers. While the job title suggests a work day focused on technical decision-making, the reality is quite different. In this video, software architect Nathaniel Schutta constructs a real world job description in which communication trumps coding."--Resource description page.
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"'Software Architect' places in the top ten of most annual surveys of best jobs, yet no clear path exists from Developer to Architect. Why aren't there more books and training materials to fill this demand? This video series by Neal Ford and Mark Richards starts filling the information gap."--Resource description page.
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Software architecture metrics are used to measure the maintainability, architectural quality of a software project and to warn early in the process about dangerous accumulations of architectural and technical debt. In this book leading hands-on software architects introduce some key software architecture metrics through case studies, that every software architect should know. This book is not about theory, it is more about practice and implementation,...
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Join us for a special conversation with Neal Ford and solutions architect Sonya Natanzon, where they'll discuss the goal of an architect: making the invisible visible. You'll dive into the unique challenge that the complexities of healthcare pose for software architects and discover how to address them to create robust solutions and improve user experience in ways that are applicable not just to healthcare but across many industries that grapple with...
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Leverage leadership knowledge to make better software architecture decisions. Think deeply but implement slowly. The overarching goal of software systems (hence, for software architecture) is to build systems that meet quality standards and that provide the highest return on investment (ROI) in the long run or within a defined period of time. A great product requires a combination of technology, leadership, and product management (including UX). Leadership...
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How is long-term planning possible when everything changes all the time--and how do you address the unfortunate fact that architectures often gradually degrade? Evolutionary architectures support the building of systems that allow architects and developers to make sweeping changes to the most important parts with confidence. Join us for a special conversation on evolutionary architectures with Neal Ford and Thoughtworks CTO Rebecca Parsons. They'll...
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Sponsored by circleci and vFunction Developers have no single--or clearly defined--path to becoming a software architect. But these sessions will give you a solid grasp of the fundamentals, preparing you to implement the strategies that will help your organization increase performance, reduce costs, manage complexity, build in resilience and scalability, and speed time to market. Whether you're a senior-level developer who wants to make the move to...
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Join us for a special conversation on cloud native architecture with Neal Ford and Java Champion Pratik Patel. They'll discuss how developers can manage the complexity that cloud native architecture brings and how enterprise developers should think about and build systems for the cloud. Along the way, they'll touch on design and implementation patterns, explore the advantages and disadvantages of monoliths, microservices, and cloud functions, and...
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"For the beginner architect, there are many options for doing pretty much anything. But for the Master architect, there are only a few. In this dense webcast Juval Lowy will explain his approach to large system analysis and design, using volatility to decompose a system into its comprising services. Juval will contrast it with the most common mistake done in architecture, using functionality to identify services. These are universal design principles,...
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Managing Trade-Offs in Adaptable Software Architectures explores the latest research on adapting large complex systems to changing requirements. To be able to adapt a system, engineers must evaluate different quality attributes, including trade-offs to balance functional and quality requirements to maintain a well-functioning system throughout the lifetime of the system. This comprehensive resource brings together research focusing on how to manage...
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Join us for a special conversation on software engineering with Neal Ford and Grady Booch, IBM's chief scientist for software engineering and coauthor of the Unified Modeling Language. They'll discuss what the future holds and how that future relies on software that has yet to be written. You'll discover why the story of computing is the story of our own humanity and explore what it means to be human in the face of a technology that can amplify us,...
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Sneak Peek The Sneak Peek program provides early access to Pearson video products and is exclusively available to Safari subscribers. Content for titles in this program is made available throughout the development cycle, so products may not be complete, edited, or finalized, including video post-production editing. 10 Hours of Video Instruction Now thoroughly updated, Software Architecture in Practice LiveLessons introduces students to the most important...
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Microservices architectures offer great benefits: faster change speeds, better scalability and cleaner, evolvable architectures. But, implementing your first Microservices architecture to get those rewards is difficult. How do you quickly educate your team on all the technical details of execution to maximize your chances of success? How do you survive the first year of bringing your microservices implementation to life? How do you improve your execution?...
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As with any field of discipline--in any profession or industry--knowing how to do your job, no matter how good you are or how much training and experience you have, is only a part of the skillset that you need to possess to be successful as a software architect. To be truly effective requires a good balance between technical skills and "soft skills." In this learning path, the fifth in a series of six on software architecture fundamentals, your hosts,...
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Architects are essentially the Rosetta Stone of an organization, providing translation services between the executive suite and the development floors. They also keep the institutional memory of an organization in tack. Join us for a special conversation with Neal Ford and software architect extraordinaire Nathaniel Schutta to discover why an architect's key job is to be a storyteller, then learn how to help make architecture a central part of your...
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About Architectural Katas: What could be better than practicing software architecture with your handpicked dream team of architects? Participants in Architectural Katas, moderated by Neal Ford, work together in small groups of their choosing to solve a challenge an actual organization is facing. Everyone gets the chance to practice their craft with a real software architecture problem in a safe and social environment, and the finalists and winners...
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