Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Mark Richards (Author), Neal Ford (Author), Benjamin Lange (Narrator),

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Salary surveys worldwide regularly place software architect in the top 10 best jobs, yet no real guide exists to help developers become architects. Until now. This book provides the first comprehensive overview of software architecture’s many aspects. Aspiring and existing architects alike will examine architectural characteristics, architectural patterns, component determination, diagramming and presenting architecture, evolutionary architecture, and many other topics.

Mark Richards and Neal Ford—hands-on practitioners who have taught software architecture classes professionally for years—focus on architecture principles that apply across all technology stacks. You’ll explore software architecture in a modern light, taking into account all the innovations of the past decade.

This book examines:

Architecture patterns: the technical basis for many architectural decisions
Components: identification, coupling, cohesion, partitioning, and granularity
Soft skills: effective team management, meetings, negotiation, presentations, and more
Modernity: engineering practices and operational approaches that have changed radically in the past few years
Architecture as an engineering discipline: repeatable results, metrics, and concrete valuations that add rigor to software architecture

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13 hours and 10 minutes
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Benjamin Lange
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February 27, 2021
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English
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Upfront Books
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B08X8H15BW
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	13 hours and 10 minutes
Author	Mark Richards, Neal Ford
Narrator	Benjamin Lange
Audible.com Release Date	February 27, 2021
Publisher	Upfront Books
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B08X8H15BW
Best Sellers Rank	#32,909 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #18 in Software Design Tools #29 in Computer Systems Analysis & Design (Books) #34 in Programming & Software Development

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Joe

Kindle Ed: Seems like a good book, but online material leads to a 404. Some diagrams are unreadable

Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2023

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Preliminary review: a lot of the book's online material leads to a 404. I can't give 5 stars for that reason

Some of the diagrams have text on them, and they are hard to read in the Kindle ed

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William M.

Wonderful but lack of color

Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2023

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It would be even more pleasant to read this book if you printed it with the images in color.

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Marvin Patrick

Awesome Book!

Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2021

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I read this book as an Associate SE and I gained a ton of knowledge. This book is extremely well written. I enjoyed the order in which the topics were presented. It began with an explanation of the four pillars in software architecture. By doing so readers gain immediate value within the first few pages. I particularly enjoyed the advocation for a domain partitioned folder structure as opposed to a technically partitioned folder structure, especially for front end developers. I believe navigating the code base should very much resemble navigating the UI. This is not only cool for readability, but it inherently increases cohesion. A huge win for such a low cost.

After getting the foundations laid the authors explain different architecture styles. The part I found to be most useful was the charts they provided which give star ratings to highlight the strength and weaknesses of each architecture. This illustrates that architecture styles should be chosen for specific solutions and not trends. I gained the skills necessary to begin to think like an architect. It included breadth of knowledge which, as the book will tell you, is much more important than depth of knowledge for an architect. Then the authors decided to dive back in and elaborate a bit more on the foundations learned at the beginning. It suggested ADRs, another quick win for low costs. They also spoke about risks storming and offered friendly advice on finding balance within the teams.

All in all, an amazing book. And at the end, the authors even presented tons of short answer questions to challenge readers and really take the lesson home.

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FingolfinTEK

Better than expected!

Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2021

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I'm not sure if it's the fact that I got burned by Building Evolutionary Architectures, co-authored by Neal Ford, or my previous experience with other "fundamentals" books which tended to be rather useless - my expectations were fairly low of this one but I'm glad I went ahead and read it.

The book starts off by discussing what software architecture is, what the job entails, what the common misconceptions are and then for the remainder of the book covers both the technical and soft skills required for a person to become a good architect - how to maintain the technical know-how required by the job, what types of knowledge to focus on, how to detect, discuss and document the architecture, the reasons behind it and the trade-offs it entails, how to interact with your colleagues, both on the developer and the business side, how to resolve conflicts, nurture and promote constructive collaboration etc. So, as you can see, the authors try to cover a lot of ground without going too deep (and waking Durin's Bane) - and they do it successfully.

That being said, the book isn't perfect, some chapters could have used more feedback, especially the event-driven architecture one, which felt a bit dated and like it came from someone who didn't have firsthand experience with it recently. Also, I can't really say that I truly discovered something new within its pages - which isn't necessarily a bad thing if, like here, the summary of the things you know is presented in such a way it actually reinforces the existing knowledge.

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Excellent overview of different architectures

Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2022

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Excellent overview of different architectures and enable one to ask more questions, the right questions, and the right keywords to look up for further exploration and self study.

There are no implementation details but a good idea of the structure, action, pros and cons.

So this book won't teach you how to implement messaging or Domain Driven Design, for example, but will give you an idea about how to identify whether and where they are needed, and why.

A solid step up for those who know how all the parts work and now would like to know, how to know, which parts will be appropriate in different situations.

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Good introductory book

Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2022

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I refreshed my memories and ideas. Learned about new tools, books, and techniques. Nothing revolutionary here.
The book will not make you architects. Hard work will.

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Azamat Kalmurzayev

Great book for all backend developers and engineering managers

Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2022

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This book gives a great thought framework for reflecting on your current product and planning the next one from architectural stance.
had to read this book twice, because some chapters were pretty dense on confusing CS terms

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NSAES

Thorough overview of basics

Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2022

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The book is what it says: fundamentals... "just enough" of software architecture. Full of good advice for someone who already has some tech lead and design experience, but looking to move up in the hierarchy. General direction is more on breadth (architects) rather than on depth (developers). See picture for recommended study environment.

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Ricardo Vasquez

Muy buen libro

Reviewed in Mexico on November 11, 2023

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Para empezar a adentrarse al tema

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Just Some Guy

Should be called "How to Pursue a Software Architect Career"

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 10, 2022

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This is a great book - but it's not what I expected, or what I was really looking for. In short, *spoiler alert* – the constant theme of this book is "There are no clear right or wrong answers, there are only tradeoffs." That advice gets repeated in every chapter of the book, through countless examples.

That's terrific practical advice, and good knowledge for any architect to have. However, if you're looking for a book full of design patterns and specific advice about how best to implement something, you will be very frustrated by this book. In fact, there's essentially zero actual code in the entire book. It's not that kind of book.

The first 2/3 of the book do outline a lot of broad architectural styles and patterns, and do an excellent job of considering the many pros and cons of each. The last section of the book, though, is entirely about "soft skills" career advice for effectively doing the *job* of architect in a company (people skills, management skills, presentation skills, etc.). Frankly, the title doesn't imply that at all, and I just wish this book had been called something more accurate to its true nature, like: "How to Pursue a Software Architect Career"

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Gio

Da leggere!

Reviewed in Italy on July 3, 2023

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Consigliato per chi vuole diventare un architect o si vuole approfondire qualche concetto di architettura software che vengono affrontati spesso nelle decisioni di nuovi progetti.

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STEFAN G.

Exzellent und up to date

Reviewed in Germany on June 24, 2022

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Insbesondere das im zweiten Teil des Buchs herausgearbeitete Gesetz "the why is more important than the how" ist eine im Alltag immer wieder erlebte Erfahrung in Sachen Architektur und Source Code. Da dies häufig missachtet wird, kann die WTF Rate schnell ansteigen.

Im ersten Teil des Buchs werden diverse Architekturvarianten vorgestellt, bewertet und Empfehlungen für Anwendungsfälle gegeben. Klasse Hilfsmittel.

Wichtigste Regel: Es gibt keine Silver Bullets sonder immer nur die am wenigsten schlechte Lösung.

Es wurde bemängelt, dass die Qualität der Diagramme und Grafiken im gedruckten Buch sehr schlecht ist.
Das stimmt, aber es gibt eine zum Buch gehörende Website, auf der die Diagramme in hoher Auflösung verfügbar sind.
Einfach ohne voranstehendes www die com Domain fundamentalsofsoftwarearchitecture aufrufen und die Sektion Updated Images anwählen.

Klare Kaufempfehlung!

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Graham

Great but needs an editor

Reviewed in Canada on January 8, 2023

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There are really good tips and insights in here, backed up by helpful diagrams. Too bad it’s wrapped up in obtuse, wordy sentences and full of typos.

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