4 Software Architecture
The focus of this book is software products—individual applications that run on servers, personal computers, or mobile devices. To create a reliable, secure, and efficient product, you need to pay attention to its overall organization, how the software is decomposed into components, the server organization, and the technologies used to build the software. In short, you need to design the software architecture.
The architecture of a software product affects its performance, usability, security, reliability, and maintainability. Architectural issues are so important that three chapters in this book are devoted to them. In this chapter I discuss the decomposition of software into components, client–server architecture, ...
Get Engineering Software Products: An Introduction to Modern Software Engineering now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
