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

by Eóin Woods, Murat Erder, Pierre Pureur

Length: 336 pages
Edition: 1
Language: English
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Publication Date: 2021-06-07
ISBN-10: 0136523560
ISBN-13: 9780136523567
Sales Rank: #982665 (See Top 100 Books)

Revamp Your Architectural Practices for New Challenges, Environments, and Stakeholder Expectations
This book recognizes that software architecture is not the merely conceptual domain of disconnected experts but is the . . . give-and-take daily tussle of team members who have to balance trade-offs and competing forces to deliver resilient, high-performing, secure applications. . . . [It] bridges the significant gap between the ‘Earth from orbit’ view and the pavement-level view of refactoring microservice code.
–Kurt Bittner, VP, Enterprise Solutions, Scrum.org
Authors Murat Erder, Pierre Pureur, and Eoin Woods have taken their extensive enterprise architecture experience and applied it to the practical aspects of continuous architecture in real-world environments.
Continuous Architecture in Practice
provides hands-on advice for leveraging continuous architecture in real-world environments and illuminates architecture’s changing role in the age of Agile, DevSecOps, and cloud platforms. This guide will help technologists update their architecture practice for new application challenges.

As part of the Vaughn Vernon Addison-Wesley 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, including cross-cutting concerns such as security, performance, scalability, resilience, data, and innovation. Each key technique is demonstrated through a start-to-finish case study reflecting the authors’ deep experience evolving complex software environments.
Create sustainable, coherent systems that meet functional requirements and the quality attributes stakeholders care about Understand team-based software architecture and architecture as a flow of decisions Reflect varied data technologies and crucial issues of data management, integration, and change Architect for security, including continuous threat modeling and mitigation Use architecture to improve performance in continuous delivery environments Architect for scalability and scale microservices and serverless environments Use architecture to apply emerging technologies more successfully

Cover Page
Title Page
Contents
Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1. Why Software Architecture Is More Important than Ever
    What Do We Mean by Architecture?
    Software Industry Today
    Current Challenges with Software Architecture
    Software Architecture in an (Increasingly) Agile World
    Introducing Continuous Architecture
    Applying Continuous Architecture
    Introduction to the Case Study
    Summary
Chapter 2. Architecture in Practice: Essential Activities
    Essential Activities Overview
    Architectural Decisions
    Quality Attributes
    Technical Debt
    Feedback Loops: Evolving an Architecture
    Common Themes in Today’s Software Architecture Practice 
    Summary
Chapter 3. Data Architecture
    Data as an Architectural Concern
    Key Technology Trends
    Additional Architectural Considerations
    Summary
    Further Reading
Chapter 4. Security as an Architectural Concern
    Security in an Architectural Context
    Architecting for Security
    Architectural Tactics for Mitigation
    Maintaining Security
    Summary
    Further Reading
Chapter 5. Scalability as an Architectural Concern
    Scalability in the Architectural Context
    Architecting for Scalability: Architecture Tactics
    Summary
    Further Reading
Chapter 6. Performance as an Architectural Concern
    Performance in the Architectural Context
    Architecting for Performance
    Summary
    Further Reading 
Chapter 7. Resilience as an Architectural Concern
    Resilience in an Architectural Context
    Architecting for Resilience
    Architectural Tactics for Resilience
    Maintaining Resilience
    Summary
    Further Reading
Chapter 8. Software Architecture and Emerging Technologies
    Using Architecture to Deal with Technical Risk Introduced by New Technologies
    Brief Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning
    Using Machine Learning for TFX
    Using a Shared Ledger for TFX
    Summary
    Further Reading
Chapter 9. Conclusion
    What Changed and What Remained the Same?
    Updating Architecture Practice
    Data
    Key Quality Attributes
    The Architect in the Modern Era
    Putting Continuous Architecture in Practice
Appendix A. Case Study
    Introducing TFX
    The Architectural Description
    Other Architectural Concerns
Appendix B. Comparison of Technical Implementations of Shared Ledgers
Glossary