Software Architecture in Practice, Third Edition

28. Epilogue

Don’t let it end like this. Tell them I said something.

—Pancho Villa

You’ve arrived at the end of the journey. Nice work.

We hope you can find some valuable takeaways from this book. We suggest the list should include the following:

1. What architecture is, why it’s important, what influences it, and what it influences.

2. The role that architecture plays in a business, technical, project, and professional context.

3. The critically important symbiosis between architecture and quality attributes, how to specify quality attribute requirements, and the quick immersion you’ve had into the dozen or so of the most important QAs.

4. How to capture the architecturally significant requirements for an architecture.

5. How to design an ...