Revamp Your Architectural Practices for New Challenges, Environments, and Stakeholder Expectations "This book recognizes that software architecture is not the merely conceptual domain of disconnected experts but is the . . . give-and-take daily tussle of team members who have to balance trade-offs and competing forces to deliver resilient, high-performing, secure applications. . . . [It] bridges the significant gap between the 'Earth from orbit' view and the pavement-level view of refactoring microservice code."
--Kurt Bittner, VP, Enterprise Solutions, Scrum.org
Authors Murat Erder, Pierre Pureur, and Eoin Woods have taken their extensive enterprise architecture experience and applied it to the practical aspects of continuous architecture in real-world environments.
Continuous Architecture in Practice provides hands-on advice for leveraging continuous architecture in real-world environments and illuminates architecture's changing role in the age of Agile, DevSecOps, and cloud platforms. This guide will help technologists update their architecture practice for new application challenges.
As part of the Vaughn Vernon Addison-Wesley Signature Series, this title was hand-selected for the practical, delivery-oriented knowledge that architects and software engineers can quickly apply. It includes in-depth guidance for addressing today's key quality attributes, including cross-cutting concerns such as security, performance, scalability, resilience, data, and innovation. Each key technique is demonstrated through a start-to-finish case study reflecting the authors' deep experience evolving complex software environments.
- Create sustainable, coherent systems that meet functional requirements and the quality attributes stakeholders care about
- Understand team-based software architecture and architecture as a "flow of decisions"
- Reflect varied data technologies and crucial issues of data management, integration, and change
- Architect for security, including continuous threat modeling and mitigation
- Use architecture to improve performance in continuous delivery environments
- Architect for scalability and scale microservices and serverless environments
- Use architecture to apply emerging technologies more successfully
Murat Erder has more than twenty-five years' experience in the software industry working for software vendors, management consultancies and large international banks. During his career Murat has had a variety of roles, from developer, to software architect, to management consultant. Murat's corporate IT roles cover the areas of data, integration, architecture and working as a CTO. He is co-author of the book Continuous Architecture: Sustainable Architecture in an Agile and Cloud-Centric World (2015) and has presented on this topic at a range of conferences, including SEI Saturn, O'Reilly Software Architecture and GOTOLondon.
Pierre Pureur is an experienced software architect, with extensive innovation and application development background, vast exposure to the financial services industry, broad consulting experience and comprehensive technology infrastructure knowledge. His past roles include serving as Chief Enterprise Architect for a major financial services company, leading large architecture teams, managing large-scale concurrent application development projects and directing innovation initiatives, as well as developing strategies and business plans. He is co-author of the book Continuous Architecture: Sustainable Architecture in an Agile and Cloud-Centric World (2015) and has published many articles and presented at range of software architecture conferences on this topic.
Eoin Woods is the Chief Technology Officer of Endava, where he guides technical strategy, oversees capability development and directs investment in emerging technologies. Prior to joining Endava, Eoin worked in the software engineering industry for twenty years, developing system software products and complex applications in the capital markets domain. His main technical interests are software architecture, DevOps and software security and resilience. He is co-author of the book Software Systems Architecture (2012), is a frequent speaker at industry events and was the recipient of the 2018 Linda M. Northrup Award for Software Architecture, awarded by the SEI at Carnegie Mellon University.
