Building Evolutionary Architectures
by Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, Patrick Kua · first published 2017
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Covers how to design architectures that keep evolving as business needs change. Useful for building an IT organization that stays nimble, and pairs well with books on microservices.
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1. Building Evolutionary Architectures - A great book for those looking to build an IT department that can meet the business needs of today and create an organizational mindset that allows you to still be nimble and evolve to meet future demands.…
on “Ask HN: What technical books are you reading?” ↗Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
on “Ask HN: What books do you keep on your desk?” ↗These are great observations. For anyone interested in going more in depth on the topic, I highly recommend the book Building Evolutionary Architectures https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36308520-building-evolut...
on “Goodbye Microservices: From 100s of problem children to 1 superstar” ↗For anyone interested in building or modifying system architectures I also highly recommend this book, although it isn't web-specific (similar to the DDIA recommendation): Building Evolutionary Architectures https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36308520-building-evolut...
on “Web Architecture 101” ↗Out of my head, of relevant interest in the distributed systems field are the following books: Designing Distributed Systems https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/designing-distributed-s... Building Evolutionary Architectures http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920080237.do Building Microservices http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920033158.do They encompass most of the topics you've enumerated earlier.
on “Papers for software architecture / design” ↗I would highly recommend getting the $25 bundle. It has a great set of titles: - Building Event-Driven Microservices - Building Evolutionary Architectures - Building Micro-Frontends - Continuous API Management - Flow Architectures - Foundations of Scalable Systems - Fundamentals of Software Architecture - Learning Domain-Driven Design - Mastering…
on “Humble Tech Book Bundle: Software Architecture by O'Reilly” ↗…Brooks Jr - Growing Object-Oriented Software - Steve Freeman - Domain Driven Design - Eric Evans - The Clean Coder: A code of conduct - Robert C martin - The Pragmatic Programmer - Andrew Hunt - Building Evolutionary Architectures - Neal Ford - The Design of Everyday Things - Don Norman - Don't Make me think - Steve Krug
on “Ask HN: Software Engineering Book Recommendations?” ↗…People Covey, Stephen R Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship,(Robert C. Martin) Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design (Robert C. Martin Series) Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change by Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, Patrick Kua If you have read any of them and you would like to share your thoughts, I will be truly happy to listen!:) Happy reading
on “Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?” ↗I'm currently reading "Building Evolutionary Architectures", and I'm liking it so far.
on “Learn how to design large-scale systems” ↗Managing data transformation (e.g. dbt) projects at scale can be challenging: DAG violations, that one model that grew to 2K lines, duplicated logic. Inspired by the book 'Building Evolutionary Architectures' I built tff to help data transformation projects evolve in a desired direction. It comes with a github bot that you can plugin to your CI pipeline. It aims to let transformation projects evolve in the…
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