Continuous Architecture in Practice: Software Architecture in the Age of Agility and DevOps

Continuous Architecture in Practice provides practical advice for leveraging the continuous architecture approach in real-world environments, highlighting its changing role in the age of Agile, DevOps, and cloud platforms. It covers key quality attributes and cross-cutting concerns such as security, performance, scalability, resilience, data, and emerging technologies, with hands-on guidance through case studies.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 352 pages
\n Publication date: 28 June 2021
\n Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
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Update Your Architectural Practices for New Challenges, Environments, and Stakeholder Expectations

I am continually delighted and inspired by the work of these authors. Their first book laid the groundwork for understanding how to evolve the architecture of a software-intensive system, and this latest one builds on it in some wonderfully actionable ways.

--Grady Booch, Chief Scientist for Software Engineering, IBM Research

Authors Murat Erder, Pierre Pureur, and Eoin Woods have taken their extensive software architecture experience and applied it to the practical aspects of software architecture in real-world environments.

Continuous Architecture in Practice provides hands-on advice for leveraging the continuous architecture approach in real-world environments and illuminates architecture's changing role in the age of Agile, DevOps, and cloud platforms. This guide will help technologists update their architecture practice for new software challenges.

As part of the Vaughn Vernon Signature Series, this title was hand-selected for the practical, delivery-oriented knowledge that architects and software engineers can quickly apply. It includes in-depth guidance for addressing today's key quality attributes and cross-cutting concerns such as security, performance, scalability, resilience, data, and emerging technologies. Each key technique is demonstrated through a start-to-finish case study reflecting the authors' deep experience with complex software environments.

Key topics include:

Creating sustainable, coherent systems that meet functional requirements and the quality attributes stakeholders care about

Understanding team-based software architecture and architecture as a flow of decisions

Understanding crucial issues of data management, integration, and interoperability

Adopting a holistic approach to architecture that considers the entire software development lifecycle

Integrating security and privacy considerations into the design from the beginning

Leveraging emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and blockchain to drive innovation and improve efficiency

Building resilient systems that can adapt to changing environments and requirements

Optimizing performance and scalability to meet the demands of growing user bases and complex applications

Ensuring data quality and integrity throughout the entire software development lifecycle

Collaborating effectively with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to drive successful outcomes

Continuously learning and adapting to new technologies, methodologies, and best practices

By updating their architectural practices for new challenges, environments, and stakeholder expectations, technologists can create sustainable, coherent systems that meet the needs of their users and stakeholders while driving innovation and growth in the software industry.

\n Weight: 672g\n
Dimension: 179 x 231 x 25 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780136523567\n \n