List of books on the general topic of software architecture. The list is somewhat broad, and includes older and newer books. Suggestions for additions welcome.
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System Architecture by Edward Crawley, Bruce Cameron, Daniel Selva
4 stars
System architecture is the study of early decision making in complex systems. This text teaches how to capture experience and β¦
Arie van Deursen π says: Not a software architecture book per se, but lot's of insights on the interplay between understanding the problem domain and the proposed solution. Organized around 26 "principles of systems architecture", many of which directly apply to software systems.
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Patterns for API Design by Cesare Pautasso, Olaf Zimmermann, Mirko Stocker, and 2 others
4 stars
In Patterns for API Design: Simplifying Integration with Loosely Coupled Message Exchanges, five expert architects and developers cover the entire β¦
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Software Architecture: visual lecture notes by Cesare Pautasso
4 stars
These are the revised and illustrated notes of the Software Architecture lecture of the Master in Software and Data Engineering β¦
Arie van Deursen π says: A broad book, organized along the lines of quality attributes like scalability, availability, modularity, reusability and composability.
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Software Systems Architecture, 2nd Edition by EΓ³in Woods, Nick Rozanski
4 stars
Software Systems Architecture is a practitioner-oriented guide to designing and implementing effective architectures for information systems. It is both a β¦
Arie van Deursen π says: A systematic approach that distinguishing stakeholders, the system properties they need, the system's context, and six architectural views that help realizing the desired properties in the given context.
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Lean architecture for Agile software development by Jim Coplien, Gertrud BjΓΈrnvig
3 stars
More and more Agile projects are seeking architectural roots as they struggle with complexity and scale - and they're seeking β¦
Arie van Deursen π says: A book targeting smaller teams, with a strong focus on delivering (customer) value.
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Arie van Deursen π says: Book with a simple, useful, and actionable message: design software architectures and team interactions together, since they are similar forces.
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
5 stars
Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues need to be figured out, such β¦
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Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler (Signature)
This book started after Dave Rice and I gave some talks on J2EE architecture and mulled over how the concepts β¦
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Software Architecture : the Hard Parts by Neal Ford, Mark Richards, Pramod Sadalage, and 1 other
5 stars
There are no easy decisions in software architecture. Instead, there are many hard parts--difficult problems or issues with no best β¦
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Patterns of Distributed Systems by Unmesh Joshi
A Patterns Approach to Designing Distributed Systems and Solving Common Implementation Problems
More and more enterprises today are dependent β¦
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The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks
4 stars
Classic text on the human side of software engineering, containing essays on the management of software teams, projections about how β¦
Arie van Deursen π says: Discusses the notion of "conceptual integrity", and many people-centered lessons from the OS360 design (still) relevant to software architecture.
