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Beautiful Architecture: Leading Thinkers Reveal the Hidden Beauty in Software Design
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 ...more
Paperback, 428 pages
Published
January 27th 2009
by O'Reilly Media
(first published December 30th 2008)
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Too vague. The architecture essays here are tantalizing, but there's very few code samples and meaty technical chunks. No UML diagrams, no careful dissection of parts.
What went wrong with the design? How did it get to the point it did? What doesn't the current design do well? Too many times, the essay only talks about the positives of the architecture, too often sounding like an infomercial or a pitch to a client.
I would have been happier with something like TCP/IP: Th...more
What went wrong with the design? How did it get to the point it did? What doesn't the current design do well? Too many times, the essay only talks about the positives of the architecture, too often sounding like an infomercial or a pitch to a client.
I would have been happier with something like TCP/IP: Th...more
This is a pretty interesting read. The breadth is large which I really liked. Also, despite what I would have expected, there were very few UML-ish diagrams. Instead, most chapters describe their system and context and then examine the trade-offs they made, why they made them, and what the consequences were.
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