Handbuch moderner Softwarearchitektur

The software architecture is planned in a contemporary and pragmatic manner. It includes architectural patterns that serve as a 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, as well as their architectural characteristics, are also addressed.

Software architecture is regarded 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, examine the topic 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, component identification, diagram creation and presentation, evolutionary architecture, and many other topics. The authors view software architecture as an engineering discipline focused on repeatable and measurable results, as well as concrete metrics for stable software architectures.