Series Editor Foreword

My Signature Series is designed and curated to guide readers toward advances in software development maturity and greater success with business-centric practices. The series emphasizes organic refinement with a variety of approaches—reactive, object, as well as functional architecture and programming; domain modeling; right-sized services; patterns; and APIs—and covers best uses of the associated underlying technologies.

From here I am focusing now on only two words: organic refinement.

The first word, organic, stood out to me recently when a friend and colleague used it to describe software architecture. I have heard and used the word organic in connection with software development, but I didn’t think about that word ...

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