August 2018
Beginner
594 pages
22h 33m
English
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Top-down versus bottom-up design approaches
There are two fundamental approaches to the design of software architecture. One is a top-down design approach, and the other is a bottom-up approach. These strategies apply to a variety of disciplines, including software architecture design. Let's look at both of them in more detail.