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Title Beautiful architecture / edited by Diomidis Spinellis, Georgios Gousios
Edition 1st ed
Published Sebastopol, Calif. : O'Reilly Media, Inc., ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 404 pages) : illustrations
Contents What is architecture / by John Klein and David Weiss -- A tale of two systems: a modern-day software fable / by Pete Goodliffe -- Architecting for scale / by Jim Waldo -- Making memories / by Michael Nygard -- Resource-oriented architectures: being "in the web" / by Brian Sletten -- Data grows up: the architecture of the Facebook platform / by Dave Fetterman -- Xen and the beauty of virtualization / by Derek Murray and Keir Fraser -- Guardian: a fault-tolerant operating system environment / by Greg Lehey -- JPC: an X86 PC emulator in pure Java / by Rhys Newman and Christopher Dennis -- The strength of metacircular virtual machines: JIKES RVM / by Ian Rogers and Dave Grove -- GNU EMACS: creeping featurism is a strength / by Jim Blandy -- When the bazaar sets out to build cathedrals / by Till Adam and Mirko Boehm -- Software architecture: object-oriented versus functional / by Bertrand Meyer -- Reading the classics / by Panagiotis Louridas
Summary 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:<p 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Computer software -- Development.
Software engineering.
Computer architecture.
Software architecture.
Computer software -- Development.
Computer software -- Development.
Software engineering.
Computer architecture.
Software architecture.
Computer architecture
Computer software -- Development
Software architecture
Software engineering
Form Electronic book
Author Spinellis, Diomidis.
Gousios, Georgios.
LC no. 2009504468
ISBN 9780596155780
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