Software Architecture in Practice, Third Edition

The award-winning and highly influential
Software Architecture in Practice, Third
Edition, has been substantially revised to reflect the
latest developments in the field. In a real-world setting, the book
once again introduces the concepts and best practices of software
architecture—how a software system is structured and how that
system’s elements are meant to interact. Distinct from the
details of implementation, algorithm, and data representation, an
architecture holds the key to achieving system quality, is a
reusable asset that can be applied to subsequent systems, and is
crucial to a software organization’s business strategy.

The authors have structured this edition
around the concept of architecture influence cycles. Each cycle
shows how architecture influences, and is influenced by, a
particular context in which architecture plays a critical role.
Contexts include technical environment, the life cycle of a
project, an organization’s business profile, and the
architect’s professional practices. The authors also have
greatly expanded their treatment of quality attributes, which
remain central to their architecture philosophy—with an
entire chapter devoted to each attribute—and broadened their
treatment of architectural patterns.

If you design, develop, or manage large
software systems (or plan to do so), you will find this book to be
a valuable resource for getting up to speed on the state of the
art.

Totally new material covers