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Practical Software Architecture Solutions from the Legendary Robert C. Martin (“Uncle Bob”)
By applying universal rules of software architecture, you can dramatically improve developer productivity throughout the life of any software system. Now, building upon the success of his best-selling books Clean Code and The Clean Coder, legendary software craftsman Robert C. Martin (“Uncle Bob”) reveals those rules and helps you apply them.
Martin’s Clean Architecture doesn’t merely present options. Drawing on over a half-century of experience in software environments of every imaginable type, Martin tells you what choices to make and why they are critical to your success. As you’ve come to expect from Uncle Bob, this book is packed with direct, no-nonsense solutions for the real challenges you’ll face–the ones that will make or break your projects.
- Learn what software architects need to achieve–and core disciplines and practices for achieving it
- Master essential software design principles for addressing function, component separation, and data management
- See how programming paradigms impose discipline by restricting what developers can do
- Understand what’s critically important and what’s merely a “detail”
- Implement optimal, high-level structures for web, database, thick-client, console, and embedded applications
- Define appropriate boundaries and layers, and organize components and services
- See why designs and architectures go wrong, and how to prevent (or fix) these failures
Clean Architecture is essential reading for every current or aspiring software architect, systems analyst, system designer, and software manager–and for every programmer who must execute someone else’s designs.
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“…The rules of software architecture are the rules of ordering and assembling the building blocks of programs. And since those building blocks are universal and haven’t changed, the rules for ordering them are likewise universal and changeless.
But one thing has changed: Back then, we didn’t know what the rules were. Consequently, we broke them, over and over again. Now, with half a century of experience behind us, we have a grasp of those rules.
And it is those rules—those timeless, changeless, rules—that this book is all about.”
— Robert C. "Uncle Bob" Martin
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"As software developers, we have to continually solve important problems for our employers, customers, colleagues, and future selves. Getting the app to work, though difficult, is not enough, it does not make you a craftsman. With an app working, you have passed the app-titude test. You may have the aptitude to be a craftsman, but there is more to master. In these pages, Bob expresses clearly the techniques and responsibilities to go beyond the app-titude test and shows the way of the serious software craftsman."
— James Grenning, author of Test-Driven Development for Embedded C and Agile Manifesto co-author
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I'm an independent consultant, international speaker, writer and trainer. I live in Bristol and online.
My software development interests are in patterns, programming, practice and process. As well as contributing to a number of projects, I've been involved in (far too) many committees (for conferences, publications and standards, but as yet I've not been on a committee for committees).
My fiction writing tends to the short side — and occasionally to the dark side — spanning a number of genres.

Robert Cecil Martin (colloquially known as Uncle Bob) is an American software engineer and author. He is a co-author of the Agile Manifesto.
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The main idea is to avoid dependency applying the Dependency Rule at all levels, classes and components. The Dependency Inversion graph, where high-level functions calling middle-level functions through an interface that the middle-interface implements, is a medular software construction that should be applied as an obsessive pattern. It guarantees independence, reusable, clean architecture. This book explains how and why for this.
The result is the idea of Plugin architecture where the core of the system, the set of functionality that implements the use cases and business rules (interactors (R. C. Martin)/controls (I. Jacobson)/controllers (C. Larman) should be the center at which all other parts (IO components, details) will point via abstractions (interfaces or abstract classes).
I have been practicing clean architecture ideas for many years (and before Martin coined the term) following Martin guidance a principles. Its product is natural, simple, robust, structured, reusable and beautiful to work.
Paradoxically, the last chapter about packaging components--written by S. Brown--seems a contradiction to the whole book ideas and Brown somehow point to that ("My definition of a component is slightly different..."). In that chapter, Brown explains several alternatives for software architecture organization with a marked inclination for a monolithic package that represents the services of the system (and repository interaction) and another that represents the controllers. The reasons of that resultant recommendation (a junior undisciplined programmer that don't follow the cleanliness of the architecture, etc.) are really weak and out of the architect control. His recommendation violates almost all components principles explained by Martin (REP, CCP, CRP, etc.)
I love this book and totally recommend the book for all fans of good, clean architecture.
I was happily surprised that most of the stuff he taught. It seems like an old guy wrote the book and wanted to include the foundational elements of how to produce decent architecture in general. Luckily I must have had good professors because I found it to be a strong overlap with what I had found through my years of research anyway.
The nice part of this book is that everything is in one book and is a quick read (2 days here). If you're rusty or lets face it, were never clear on what dependency inversion is or how to do it -- this book should help. I was in that boat, having heard of it for a long time. I was actually already practicing it without knowing that I was. This book helped me discover that for myself.
I do like how he talks about what details are in a system.
To put it concisely:
What is the responsibility of the architect(s) ? to keep the software soft (by managing the dependencies and remaining concerned with the interfaces)
The book starts with 3 myths we developers live in:
1. Myth: We just need to get to market first and we clean it up later.
2. Myth: Messy code makes us faster today and slows us later. Myth: We can switch mode from making messes to cleaning messes. (making messes is always slower, even in very short term as shown in example of a simple kata in the book)
3. Myth: Starting from scratch is a solution.
There is a well written history lesson in the next part. Uncle Bob presents Structured Programming, OOP and Functional Programming and says there is nothing else (programming paradigm-wise) to be invented. Part 3 is about SOLID principles from architecture point of view and part 4 are his Component Principles about component cohesion and coupling from his Agile Software Development book.
Part 5 is about Architecture and was the most interesting to read. Most memorable chapters for me were the Screaming Architecture and the Clean Architecture. Both of them are not new, you could have seen them in his videos or the article from 8thlight. The point of Screaming Architecture is that when a new developer joins a health-care project, he should be able to immediately tell "this is a health-care project" just from the project structure. Another topic which was part of multiple chapters, are micro-services. I felt that Robert Martin is not very fond of starting with them. He says services are little more than expensive function calls and as a communication mechanism between the project boundaries (i.e. a detail), they are a decision which should be deffered as far as possible.
Part 6, the Details, are a detailed explanations of his article Clean Architecture from 2012. There is a little gem in there, the Missing Chapter 34 written by Simon Brown. I liked his explanation of 4 different kinds of packaging classes together to form components.
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L'auteur, avec sa grande expertise et son expérience, présente de manière claire et concise les principes fondamentaux de l'architecture propre. Il met l'accent sur l'importance de séparer les préoccupations et de créer des composants indépendants et modulaires, ce qui facilite la maintenance, les tests et les évolutions du logiciel.
Ce que j'apprécie particulièrement dans ce livre, c'est la combinaison entre la théorie et les exemples concrets. L'auteur propose de nombreux cas d'utilisation réels, illustrant ainsi comment appliquer les concepts d'architecture propre dans des situations concrètes. Cela rend le livre facile à suivre et permet une meilleure compréhension des concepts abordés.
L'approche de l'auteur est pragmatique et axée sur les résultats. Il propose des lignes directrices claires et des pratiques éprouvées pour créer des logiciels robustes, évolutifs et maintenables. Il met également en évidence les pièges courants à éviter et fournit des astuces pour résoudre les problèmes d'architecture courants.
La structure du livre est bien organisée, permettant une progression naturelle de la compréhension des concepts fondamentaux vers des sujets plus avancés. Chaque chapitre offre des informations précieuses et des réflexions approfondies qui incitent à la réflexion et à l'amélioration des compétences en matière de conception logicielle.
En conclusion, je recommande vivement "Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design" à tous les professionnels du développement logiciel qui cherchent à améliorer leurs compétences en matière d'architecture et de conception logicielle. Ce livre est une ressource précieuse, offrant des conseils pratiques et des principes solides pour créer des logiciels de qualité. Ne cherchez pas plus loin, c'est un ouvrage indispensable pour tout développeur soucieux de la qualité de son travail !















