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Strategic Monoliths and Microservices: Driving Innovation Using Purposeful Architecture
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Strategic Monoliths and Microservices: Driving Innovation Using Purposeful Architecture

by Vaughn Vernon, Tomasz Jaskula
November 2021
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
9h 47m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 8

Foundation Architecture

It seems that every book that discusses software architecture in any way attempts to define software architecture. Some examples from other sources follow.

The software architecture of a program or computing system is the structure or structures of the system, which comprise software elements, the externally visible properties of those elements, and the relations among them. [Software Architecture in Practice]

The fundamental organization of a system embodied in its components, their relationships to each other, and to the environment, and the principles guiding its design and evolution. [ISO 47010]

All architecture is design, but not all design is architecture. Architecture represents the significant design ...

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