The Software Architect Elevator

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• abstractions, levels of, Levels of Abstraction: Simplicity Versus Flexibility
• ACID transactions, Your Coffee Shop Doesn’t Use Two-Phase Commit
• Agile methods, Agile and Architecture, Slow Chaos Is Not Order-The Way Out
• alignment
  • defined, The Dangers of Riding the Elevator
  • excessive, Poorly Set Domain Boundaries—Excessive Alignment
• amber organizations, Systems Resist Change
• analysis paralysis, Reversing Irreversible Decision Making
• anarchy, Actual Control: Autonomy
• Application Delivery Controller (ADC), Charting Territory
• architect elevator, The Architect Elevator-Flattening the Building
• architectural decisions, Architectural Decisions-Passing the Test
• architecture
  • benefits of automation, Never Send a Human to Do a Machine’s Job-A Place for Humans, Self-Service Is Better Service
  • benefits of including built-in options, Architecture Is Selling Options-Amplifying Metaphors
  • benefits of layers, Why IT Architects Love Pyramids
  • defined, Architecture, Defining Software Architecture
  • evolutionary architecture, Evolutionary Architecture
  • gaining insights from the real world into, Your Coffee Shop Doesn’t Use Two-Phase Commit-Welcome to the Real World!
  • identifying, Is This Architecture?-Passing the Test
  • multispeed, Multispeed Architectures
  • programming versus configuration, Code Fear Not!-Configuration Hiding as Code?
  • skills needed to create sound, Architecting the Real World
  • value of, The Value of Architecture
• architecture analysis, Viewpoints
• architecture diagrams, Diagrams Are Models-Nothing Is Confusing in and ...