Handbuch moderner Softwarearchitektur

Software architecture is planned in a contemporary and pragmatic way. It covers architectural patterns, which serve as the technical foundation for many architectural decisions. Key components include identification, coupling, cohesion, partitioning, and granularity. Various architectural styles, such as microkernel, SOA, microservices, and others, along with their architectural characteristics, are also discussed.

Software architecture is viewed as an engineering discipline aimed at achieving stable architectures with repeatable and measurable results. Mark Richards and Neal Ford, practitioners with extensive experience in teaching software architecture, consider the subject in light of the developments, innovations, and challenges of the past decade. They emphasize architectural principles that are applicable across all technology stacks.

Both aspiring and experienced architects will find comprehensive information in this book on architectural features and styles, determining components, diagramming and presentation, evolutionary architecture, and many other topics. The authors approach software architecture as an engineering discipline, focusing on repeatable and measurable results along with concrete metrics for stable software architectures.