architecture-handbook

Useful Resources

Real world advice for technologists to drive architectural excellence
Viewed as a guide to navigate personal journeys towards software architecture mastery
Comprehensive overview of software architecture’s many aspects, including:
- First Law of Software Architecture: Everything in software architecture is a trade-off ⚖️
- Second Law of Software Architecture: Why is more important than how
- All architectures become iterative because of unknown unknowns, Agile just recognizes this and does it sooner
£35 on Amazon

Provides invaluable insight into what architecture is all about
Teaches how to avoid the traditional, somewhat dysfunctional ‘business vs IT’ mindset
Covers an essential mix of technical and non-technical topics
About £30 on Amazon

Clear and practical advice on measuring and investing in team performance
Provides context around the role of architecture, and its significant impact on team performance
Solid guidance on what works, what doesn’t work, and what doesn’t matter
About £12 on Amazon

An indepth look at leveraging the C4 Model https://c4model.com/ for visualising software architecture
Contains advice and guidance on the primary and supplimentary diagrams and how to handle large systems
Provides guidance on adding additional information to the diagrams to help facilitate a particular narrative
About £9 on leanpub

Reminder of:
- Don’t add complexity where it isn’t need yet
- Trade offs (pros/cons)
About £30 on Amazon

This is a practical guide for software developers
It teaches risk-driven architecting
It emphasizes the engineering
It provides practical advice
About £40 on Amazon but the ebook is available for £7.99 on George Fairbanks’ own website

Available to read Free online, courtesy of Google
Also Available on Amazon
- £50 for paperback
- £35 digital
General guide to a wide variety of issues in software deployment
Very google focussed, many of the Authors worked for Google whilst writing this.
Strong emphasis on designing for reliability. Essentially this is an SRE book, but its scope covers many areas of system design.

Deeper into Architecture
A common question is “What does success look like”
This book goes through a number of techniques to help understand what success is, how we can quantify success, and check that a project is being successfull
Teaches about fitness functions
Teachs Goal Question Metric (GQM) Approach
Focus on case studies, and extracting metrics which are relevant
£30-40 on Amazon