Mastering Software Architecture: A Comprehensive New Model and Approach

© The Author(s), under exclusive license to APress Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2025

M. CarducciMastering Software Architecturehttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0410-6_3

3. Capabilities: The Language of the Architect

Michael Carducci¹  

(1)

Parker, CO, USA

 

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize ‘til you have tried to make it precise.

—Bertrand Russell

As you learned in Chapter 1, much of architecture is focused on design decisions that induce certain capabilities of a system that transcend its features and functions. If you were asked to name a few of these, capabilities like performance or scalability might immediately leap to mind. If you continued to think about it, many more would emerge. Eventually, you would run out of ideas. ...