Beautiful architecture

Leading thinkers reveal the hidden beauty in software design

Diomidis Spinellis, Georgios Gousios - Collection Theory In Practice

404 pages, parution le 01/01/2009

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The authors do a wonderful job in covering some of the fundamentals and best practices of software architecture, and they do so while also covering a wide spectrum of contemporary systems. I particularly enjoyed the range of architectures they touch upon, from Emacs to Facebook, from high ceremony systems to more ethereal ones.
In short, this is a very timely and useful contribution to the art and the science and the practice of software architecture.
Grady Booch, Fellow, IBM

What are the ingredients of robust, elegant, flexible, and maintainable software architecture? Beautiful Architecture answers this question through a collection of remarkable essays from more than a dozen of today's leading software designers and architects. In each essay, contributors present a notable software architecture and analyze what makes it innovative and ideal for its purpose.

With this book, you'll discover :

How Facebook's architecture is the basis for a data-centric application ecosystem
The effect of Xen's innovative architecture on the future of operating systems
How community processes within the KDE project help software architectures evolve from rough sketches to beautiful systems
How creeping featurism has helped GNU Emacs gain unanticipated functionality
The magic behind the likes RVM self-optimizable, self-hosting runtime

This book includes contributions from:

John Klein and David Weiss
Greg Lehey
Pete Goodliffe
Rhys Newman and Christopher Dennis
Jim Waldo
Ian Rogers and Dave Grove
Michael Nygard
Jim Blandy
Brian Sletten
Till Adam and Mirko Boehm
Dave Fetterman
Bertrand Meyer
Derek Murray and Keir Fraser
Panagiotis Louridas

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What are the ingredients of robust, elegant, flexible, and maintainable software architecture ? Beautiful Architecture answers this question through a collection of intriguing essays from more than a dozen of today's leading software designers and architects. In each essay, contributors present a notable software architecture, and analyze what makes it innovative and ideal for its purpose.

L'auteur - Diomidis Spinellis

is a four-time winner of the International Obfuscated C Code Contest. He has been developing the techniques presented in this book since 1985 while writing and maintaining more than 250,000 lines of code for a number of innovative and award-winning commercial and open-source projects. He received his M.Eng. in software engineering and his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of London's Imperial College. Currently he is an assistant professor in the Department of Management Science and Technology at the Athens University of Economics and Business.

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On architecture
Enterprise application architecture
Systems architecture
End-user application architectures
Languages and architecture

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	O'Reilly
Auteur(s)	Diomidis Spinellis, Georgios Gousios
Collection	Theory In Practice
Parution	01/01/2009
Nb. de pages	404
Format	18 x 23
Couverture	Broché
Poids	583g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780596517984
ISBN13	978-0-596-51798-4