Beautiful Architecture: Leading Thinkers Reveal the Hidden Beauty in Software Design
by: Diomidis Spinellis – Georgios Gousios
ISBN-10: 059651798X
ISBN-13: 9780596517984
Edition 版次: 1
Publication Date 出版日期: 2009-01-30
Print Length 页数: 430
1.On Architecture
1.What Is Architecture?
b2.A Tale of Two Systems: A Modern-Day Software Fable
ll.Enterprise Application Architecture
3.Architecting for Scale
4.Making Memories
b5.Resource-Oriented Architectures: Being “In the Web”
b6.Data Grows Up: The Architecture of the Facebook Platform
ll.Systems Architecture
D7.Xen and the Beauty of Virtualization
b8.Guardian: A Fault-Tolerant Operating System Environment
b9.JPC: An x86 PC Emulator in Pure Java
10.The Strength of Metacircular Virtual Machines: Jikes RVM
IV.End-User Application Architectures
D11.GNU Emacs: Creeping Featurism Is a Strength
512.When the Bazaar Sets Out to Build Cathedrals
V.Languages and Architecture
D13.Software Architecture: Object-Oriented Versus Functional
514.Rereading the Classics
A.Afterword
B.Contributors
Index
About the Authors
Colophon
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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.
Some of the engineers in this book reveal how they developed a specific project,including decisions they faced and tradeoffs they made. Others take a step back to investigate how certain architectural aspects have influenced computing as a whole. With this book,you’ll discover:
How Facebook’s architecture is the basis for a data-centric application ecosystem
The effect of Xen’s well-designed architecture on the way operating systems evolve
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 Jikes RVM self-optimizable,self-hosting runtime
Design choices and building blocks that made Tandem the choice platform in high-availability environments for over two decades
Differences and similarities between object-oriented and functional architectural views
How architectures can affect the software’s evolution and the developers’ engagement
Go behind the scenes to learn what it takes to design elegant software architecture,and how it can shape the way you approach your own projects,with Beautiful Architecture
