Sources

Thematic collection of all sources that are in some way related to the subject matter, architectural design.

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This collection will continue to grow throughout the semester, so it is worth checking back here regularly.

The date of the most recent update is shown at the bottom of the page.

Requirements

• Requirements analysis
  • Sommerville: Software Engineering, 10th Edition
    • Chapter 4: Requirements Engineering
• Architecturally significant requirements
  • Michael Keeling: Design it!
    • Chapter 5
• Olaf Zimmermann: Architectural Significance Criteria and Some Core Decisions Required
• Architectural characteristics
  • Richards, Ford: Fundamentals of Software Architecture
    • Chapters 4-7
• Quality attributes
  • Cervantes, Kazman: Designing Software Architectures, 2nd Edition
    • 2.4 Architectural Drivers
  • Arc42 Quality Model

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03: Requirements, group work Go to the related exercise.

Case studies, preparing for interviews

• Tan: Successful completion of the system design interview
• ByteByteGo newsletter
• Xu, Lam: System Design Interview, Part 1
• Xu, Lam: System Design Interview, Part 2

Architectural Styles

• Comprehensive Collection
  • Richards, Ford: Fundamentals of Software Architecture
    • Part II
• Innovative styles
  • Clean Architecture
    • Variants: Ports and Adapters, Hexagonal, Onion
    • Uncle Bob: The Clean Architecture
  • Vertical Slice Architecture
    • Jimmy Bogard: Vertical Slice Architecture
    • Oskar Dudycz: My thoughts on Vertical Slices, CQRS, Semantic Diffusion and other fancy words
  • Citadel Architecture
    • DHH: The Majestic Monolith Can Become The Citadel
  • Serverless Architecture
    • Mike Roberts: Serverless Architectures

Note that the innovative styles mentioned above are often reinterpretations of earlier styles:

• Clean Architecture refines Layered Architecture.
• Vertical Slice Architecture can, in a sense, be equated with the Modular Monolith.
• Citadel Architecture can be viewed as a transition between the Modular Monolith and Service-Based Architecture.

Alternatively, they may even be quite elusive, such as Serverless Architecture (which is more of an umbrella term than a specific style).

04: Architectural Styles Go to the related exercise.

05: Architectural Styles Go to the related exercise.

Architectural Patterns

Below the level of architectural styles, we find architectural patterns (though it is debatable whether styles such as Vertical Slice Architecture should be considered simple patterns rather than styles).

Styles and Patterns

While styles dictate the overall structure of our system (with a great deal of flexibility), patterns are lower-level, reusable solutions to frequently encountered architectural problems (i.e., problem-solution pairs).

Such patterns, similar to design patterns, are collected in catalogs. Here are a few:

• Martin Fowler: Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
• Unmesh Joshi: Patterns of Distributed Systems
• Azure Architecture Center: Cloud Design Patterns