What is Software Architecture? It’s a surprisingly difficult question to answer. We can describe software architecture patterns and argue about what is the best software architecture, but in reality, most definitions are vague enough to be unhelpful or so over the top to be more like a list of everything that you need to think about when building software. Popular descriptions of what software architects do often focus on checklists of architectural qualities, which can help us remember things we may otherwise forget, but don’t really tell us what the job is for and how to do it well. In this episode, Dave Farley author of Continuous Delivery and Modern Software Engineering gives his take on what software architecture is, why it matters and how it is important for all of us to understand and use. The design of the systems that we create is important, in sustaining our ability to make change, and for them to meet their needs. There is no one-size-fits-all in software architecture, microservices is probably too big a cost for many teams that choose it for example. The architecture of our system, that shared understanding that helps, or hinders, our ability to make progress matters, so how do we choose the right architecture for the job? _____________________________________________________ 🔗 LINKS: Stefan Tilkov - “Good Enough Architecture” ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzEox3szeRc Martin Fowler - “What is SW Architecture” ➡️ https://martinfowler.com/architecture/ The “-ilities” from ISO ➡️ https://iso25000.com/index.php/en/iso-25000-standards/iso-25010 Intel Security Flaw ➡️ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meltdown_(security_vulnerability) _____________________________________________________ 📚 BOOKS: 🚨 📖 Dave’s NEW BOOK "Modern Software Engineering" is now available here ➡️ https://amzn.to/3DwdwT3 In this book, Dave brings together his ideas and proven techniques to describe a durable, coherent and foundational approach to effective software development, for programmers, managers and technical leads, at all levels of experience. 📖 "Continuous Delivery Pipelines" by Dave Farley paperback ➡️ https://amzn.to/3gIULlA ebook version ➡️ https://leanpub.com/cd-pipelines 📖 The original, award-winning "Continuous Delivery" book by Dave Farley and Jez Humble ➡️ https://amzn.to/2WxRYmx NOTE: If you click on one of the Amazon Affiliate links and buy the book, Continuous Delivery Ltd. will get a small fee for the recommendation with NO increase in cost to you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Also from Dave: 🎓 CD TRAINING COURSES If you want to learn Continuous Delivery and DevOps skills, check out Dave Farley's courses ➡️ https://bit.ly/DFTraining 📧 JOIN CD MAIL LIST 📧 Keep up to date with the latest discussions, free "How To..." guides, events, online courses and exclusive offers. ➡️ https://bit.ly/MailListCD ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANNEL SPONSORS: Linode offers Linux virtual machines with global infrastructure and simple capped pricing. No surprise bills, no lock-in, and the same price across every data center. See if Linode works for you with a $100 60-day credit by signing up HERE ➡️ https://linode.com/cd Equal Experts is a product software development consultancy with a network of over 1,000 experienced technology consultants globally. They increase the pace of innovation by using modern software engineering practices that embrace Continuous Delivery, Security, and Operability from the outset ➡️ https://bit.ly/3ASy8n0 Octopus are the makers of Octopus Deploy the single place for your team to manage releases, automate deployments, and automate the runbooks that keep your software operating. ➡️ https://octopus.com/ SpecFlow Behavior Driven Development for .NET SpecFlow helps teams bind automation to feature files and share the resulting examples as Living Documentation across the team and stakeholders. ➡️ https://go.specflow.org/dave_farley