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  • An Engineering Approach
  • By: Mark Richards, Neal Ford
  • Narrated by: Benjamin Lange
  • Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (74 ratings)
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Summary

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 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, 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 patterns: the technical basis for many architectural decisions
  • Components: identification, coupling, cohesion, partitioning, and granularity
  • Soft skills: effective team management, meetings, negotiation, presentations, and more
  • Modernity: engineering practices and operational approaches that have changed radically in the past few years
  • Architecture as an engineering discipline: repeatable results, metrics, and concrete valuations that add rigor to software architecture
©2020 Mark Richards and Neal Ford (P)2021 Upfront Books

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Good book for broadening knowledge

Very good general book, listened to all of it during my drive to work and down-time. Purchased a paper copy afterwards for future reference. Great for team leads and senior developers that have architecture and design work in their roles. Helped me better understand and name the things I have been doing and to expand knowledge. Maybe not the first choice for those that have already got lots of experience. Works well as an audio book.

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Grateful for the amount of practical ideas to assessing architecture decisions

Love the YouTube series by Mark Richards. This book gives a lot of detail and is very good to listen to as an audio book.
Creating a ubiquitous language for software engineers that make architecture decisions (almost everyone), it’s an very approachable book.
I love the density and self assessment questions.
It’s a lot of content though, hehe.

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missing visual assets

The author didn't include diagrams and figures. it makes it hard to follow him. I bought the kindle version too, for further clarification.

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very bad

authors lacked technical chops. comes across very smug and dogmatic dispute the lack of hard content.

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