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What Is Software Architecture?
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
—R. Buckminster Fuller
Writing (on our part) and reading (on your part) a book about software architecture, which distills the experience of many people, presupposes that
having a reasonable software architecture is important to the successful development of a software system and
there is a sufficient body of knowledge about software architecture to fill up a book.
There was a time when both of these assumptions needed justification. Early editions of this book tried to convince readers that both of these assumptions are true and, once you were convinced, supply you with basic knowledge so that you could apply the practice of architecture yourself. ...
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