Designing Software Architectures: A Practical Approach, 2nd Edition (Early Release)

Successfully integrate practical designs that support the full software lifecycle!

Designing Software Architectures, 2nd Edition, introduces a practical, step-by-step methodology for architecture design that any professional software engineer can use, with structured methods supported by reusable chunks of design knowledge and rich case studies that demonstrate how to use the methods.

This newly updated edition reflects how contemporary architects are designing systems. You will find new chapters on supporting business agility through API-centric design, deployability, cloud-based solutions, and technical debt in design. This edition places more emphasis on the design of APIs for distributed systems so you can make design decisions in systematic, repeatable, and cost-effective ways.

The Attribute-Driven Design method may not have changed since this book’s first printing, but almost everything else about the industry has. This book will help you become a better designer who can help pave the road from mediocrity to excellence and from a craft to a discipline of engineering.

The new edition includes

A clear explanation of the Attribute-Driven Design method

New chapters focused on the technical environments and contexts of contemporary design

Two new case studies on The Hotel Pricing System and Digital Twin Platform

Coverage of current architecture topics like cloud computing, DevOps, and large-scale systems

Methods to make architecture design agile and achievable