Awesome Software Architecture

Contents

• Principles
• Design Patterns
  • Scalability and Resilience
• Methodology
• Documentation
• Workshop formats
• Modeling
• Tools
• Frameworks
  • Agile
  • Lean software development
  • Extreme programming
  • DevOps
• Bonus

Principles

• Flexibility - Able to adapt to changes in both environment and usability requirements without encompassing structural changes.

Design Patterns

• Ports and adapters pattern - Decouple the application core logic from the services it uses.
• Observer pattern - One-to-many state change notification.
• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, by Gamma et al - The one that started it all :orange_book:.
• Software Design Patterns: A Guide - Introduction to common software design patterns.
• Software Design Patterns and Principes (quick overview) - Reasons about common design patterns as well as their upsides and downsides 🎥.
• CQRS - Segregate operations that read data from operations that update data by using separate interfaces.
• Event Sourcing - Instead of storing just the current state of the data in a domain, use an append-only store to record the full series of actions taken on that data.
• Feature Toggles - Feature Toggles (often also refered to as Feature Flags) are a powerful technique, allowing teams to modify system behavior without changing code.
• Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Functional Testing - BDD uses human-readable descriptions of software user requirements as the basis for software tests.
• N-tier architecture style - Layers are a way to separate responsibilities and manage dependencies.

Scalability and Resilience

• Circuit Breaker - Protecting failing resources to prevent cascading failures
• Bulkhead - Partition resources to isolate failures

Methodology

• No silver bullet, by Brooks - Making a case for growing software in small increments :orange_book:.
• Clean Architecture, by Martin - Key principles and concepts for building sustainable and maintainable software :orange_book:.
• Technical Debt, by Fowler - Cost and impact of accumulating technical debt.
• The Magic Tricks of Testing, by Metz - Minimalistic ideals as a practical and pragmatic approach to software testing 🎥.
• TDD, Where did it all go wrong?, by Cooper - Suggestion on TDD practices and boundaries to reduce coupling 🎥.

Documentation

• arc42 - Template for documentation and communication of software and system architectures.
• Architectural Decision Records - Version and document architectural decisions the same way you do with code.
• Documenting architecture - Pragmatic tips on how to effectively document software architecture.

Workshop formats

• Event Storming - Format for exploring domain driven-design.
• MoSCoW Prioritization - Fast and dead-simple way of prioritizing requirements.
• Story mapping - Visualize your requirements by creating story maps.
• Impact mapping - A strategic planning technique used for building products and delivering projects.
• Business Model Canvas - Business plans made simple and visual.
• Business Model Generation, by Osterwalder & Pigneur - Easily visualize your value proposition, costs and revenue streams :orange_book:.

Modeling

• The C4 Model - Describe software using Context, Containers, Components and Code.
• Wikipedia: Data modeling - Great, short, introduction to data modeling.

Tools

• Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect - Object-oriented modelling suite. Only available natively for Windows.
• Visual Paradigm - Similar to Enterprise Architect. Available for multiple platforms.
• Lucidchart - Paid cloud-based diagram editor. Available on all common platforms.
• Draw.io - Free and simple diagram editor. Comparable to Visio and its likes. Available on all common platforms.
• Structurizr - Modelling tool based on the C4 Model (see above).
• PlantUML - Like markdown for diagrams, PlantUML renders an english-like grammer into diagrams.
• PlantUML for Atlassian - Adds support for PlantUML-based diagrams in the atlassian suite.

Frameworks

Agile

• Scrum - Framework for developing and maintaining complex products.
• SAFe - Scalable agile framework.
• Nexus - Scalable Scrum according to Ken Schwaber, co-creator of Scrum.
• The death of Agile, by Allen Holub - How “Agile” has moved away from the basic principles of agility, and what we need to do to fix things 🎥.
• Agile Architecture Pt. 1, by Allen Holub - How do we work with architecture in a agile world 🎥.

• Agile Architecture Pt. 2, by Allen Holub - How do we work with architecture in a agile world 🎥. ### Lean software development

• Wikipedia: Lean Software Development - Translation of lean manufacturing for the software development domain.
• Rolling rocks downhill, by Clarke Ching - Business novel about agile and lean software development :orange_book:.

• The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement, by Goldratt - Business novel about contiuous improvements in a manufacturing setting. Easily adaptable to software development as well :orange_book:. ### Extreme programming

• Extreme Programming - The most specific of the popular agile processes, focusing on engineering and development practices.

DevOps

• Wikipedia: DevOps - Combining software development and operations practices to shorten time to market while maintaining high quality.
• The Phoenix Project, by Gene Kim et al - IT, Devops and helping your Business win :orange_book:.
• The Unicorn Project, by Gene Kim - Developers, Digital Disruption and Thriving in the Age of Data :orange_book:.
• Keep CALMS and carry on - How BPDTS use the CALMS model as a reference for their devops adaptations.
• Chaos Engineering at Netfix - Chaos Engineering is a new discipline within Software Engineering, building confidence in the behavior of distributed systems at scale 🎥.

• Adidas DevOps Maturity Framework - Based in the C.A.L.M.S. definition of DevOps, the framework defines a set of capabilities and guidelines that when adopted, increases efficiency, effectiveness and happiness of the team. ## Bonus

• How to learn software design and architecture - a roadmap - Additional things helpful to learn to get a firm understanding of software architecture.

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