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Beautiful Architecture
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Beautiful Architecture

by Diomidis Spinellis, Georgios Gousios
January 2009
Beginner
430 pages
15h 34m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Your Turn

Never lose a holy curiosity.

Albert Einstein

You are reading this book right now because you care about software architecture, and you care about improving your own software. So here’s an excellent opportunity. Consider these simple questions about your software experience to date:

  1. What’s the best system architecture you’ve ever seen?

    • How did you recognize it as good?

    • What were the consequences of this architecture, both inside and outside the codebase?

    • What have you learned from it?

  2. What’s the worst architecture system you’ve ever seen?

    • How did you recognize it as bad?

    • What were the consequences of this architecture, both inside and outside the codebase?

    • What have you learned from it?

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