Software Architecture in Practice, Third Edition

Preface

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a [third] edition the faults of the first [two].

—Benjamin Franklin

It has been a decade since the publication of the second edition of this book. During that time, the field of software architecture has broadened its focus from being primarily internally oriented—How does one design, evaluate, and document software?—to including external impacts as well—a deeper understanding of the influences on architectures and a deeper understanding of the impact architectures have on the life cycle, organizations, and management.

The past ten years have also seen dramatic changes in the types of systems ...