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In this truly unique technical book, today's leading software architects present valuable principles on key development issues that go way beyond technology. More than four dozen architects -- including Neal Ford, Michael Nygard, and Bill de hOra -- offer advice for communicating with stakeholders, eliminating complexity, empowering developers, and many more practical lessons they've learned from years of experience. Among the 97 principles in this book, you'll find useful advice such as:

Don't Put Your Resume Ahead of the Requirements (Nitin Borwankar)
Chances Are, Your Biggest Problem Isn't Technical (Mark Ramm)
Communication Is King; Clarity and Leadership, Its Humble Servants (Mark Richards)
Simplicity Before Generality, Use Before Reuse (Kevlin Henney)
For the End User, the Interface Is the System (Vinayak Hegde)
It's Never Too Early to Think About Performance (Rebecca Parsons)

To be successful as a software architect, you need to master both business and technology. This book tells you what top software architects think is important and how they approach a project. If you want to enhance your career, 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know is essential reading.

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Richard Monson-Haefel , an independent software developer, coauthored all five editions of Enterprise JavaBeans and Java Message Service (all O'Reilly). He's a software architect specializing in multi-touch interfaces and a leading expert on enterprise computing. More detail on his work and writings can be found at www.monson-haefel.com.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (March 3 2009)
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Sujit Jagdev

Good easy read, full of good advice

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on September 19, 2009

The book is filled with good advice given in short chapters.
This makes it not only easy to read,but one can literally jump to any part of the book.

The context offered is from architects with real experience.

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Good list of reminders, but won't teach you the details

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on July 22, 2009

If your looking for something that's going to teach you what a software architect needs to know, and you're just stepping into that role, this book isn't going to show you the nitty-gritty details of what you need. For that I would recommend something like Software Architecture in Practice . Instead, it's a collection of advice from experienced architects who are trying to summarize some key point into 2 pages.

Interesting reading if you are already in the architect role and want a reminder of those things you should be doing, but you'll need to know the details behind the advice to really make use of it. Worthwhile if that's what you're looking for.

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Nicholas Roeder

Motherhood and Apple Pie

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 11, 2009

I found this book to be generally a disappointment. If you are looking for any in-depth treatment of any content on software architecture, you won't find it here. To be fair, one could probably guess that from the title and the length of the book.

The format of the book is such that each entry takes up 2 pages. However, most entries only need close to 1 page, so much of the book is white space. On the plus side, it's very small and light to take with you on the bus.

If you like reading blog entries that are mostly opinion pieces about the topics around software architecture (including personal communication, teamwork, business challenges, etc.), this might be a really good fit for you. I found that too much of the content is simply common sense.

Of course, our industry isn't the best at always applying common sense, so perhaps some people might find this useful as a gift to their coworkers. I would choose to apply my personal time and money elsewhere.

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Alex Ireland

Good checklist for any software architect

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 8, 2012

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You can't judge a book by its cover but you can certainly ask questions about its title. Why '97 things every Software Architect should know'? Why not 98, 99 or even 100? Well the word on infoq ([....]) is that they wanted a number near 100 so that there would be enough material for a reasonably sized book. Fair enough so... The book contains 97 articles published by a range of software professional expressing their views on various aspects of software architecture. Many of the articles are not very technical in nature and there are - perhaps - a lot of similarities between this book and '12 Essential Skills for Software Architects' where author Dave Hendricksen focusses on non-technical skills essential to be a succseful architect. Other articles probably aren't just things an Architect should know but really things anyone working in Software Engineering could benefit from knowing and thinking about. I even include Project Managers in that!

That said, there are some really enjoyable bits and pieces. My favourite parts:
* Keith Braithwaite's reminding of the architect's need to quantify things. Characteristics such as average response
time should be not be phrased using terms such as 'good' or 'satifactory' but quantified as something like:
'between 750ms and 1,250ms'

* Craig Russell's points about including the human interaction time in any performance analysis. The system
may respond very fast to API calls, but the if the UI is counter-intuitive, it means the user will spend a longer time try to
get his result.

* Michael Nygard advice for engineering the 'white spaces'. Don't just have arrows between components specifying the
communication protocol, describe the performance expectation of interaction e.g. 100 requests per second, response time
250ms 99% of time. Describe how the system will handle overload, bad response times, unavailability etc.

* Mark Richards classification of architectural patterns:
- Enterprise Architecture Patterns: EDA, SOA, ROA, Pipeline architecture
- Application Architecture: Session Facade, Transfer Object
- Integration Patterns: File sharing, RPC, Messaging
- Design Patterns: GoF

* Gregor Hohpe arguments about the 'predictive call-stack architecture' becoming a thing of the past.
In massive distributed systems, it's not so easy to define the order things happen in. Architectures now have
to be able to respond to event in any time order.

* Bill de hOra discussion of inevitable tradeoffs using Brewer's conjecture (CAP) as example.

* Dave Anderson's arguments for the inevitabitly of legacy and preparing your system for maintenance.

So plenty of good advise in a short book that never gets too technical. The role of the architect is not just to be understanding complicated problems but to stand back and look at the big picture, checking for gaps and to ensure the right actions are taken to ensure project success. This means it's not really just about things a software architect should know, but about things a software architect should ensure they do not forget.

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Luca Arpaia

Is a good general starting point

Reviewed in Italy 🇮🇹 on April 23, 2017

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Interesting reading, I thought was more technical going forward in reading, however there are very interesting l points to think about

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Subodh

Good Read while travelling/commuting

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on January 12, 2016

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Good but becomes a little too generic at time.

tom

le livre à lire absolument

Reviewed in France 🇫🇷 on February 2, 2014

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étant donné architecte moi même, ce livre m'a bien aidé à cadrer et segmenter mon expérience.
il est essentiellement la compilation de plusieurs retours d'expériences de plusieurs architectes 'connus'.

je le conseille vivement.

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T. Cromarty

Read it online for free

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 6, 2014

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Waste of money. The source material for the book can be found online at http://97things.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/97_Things_Every_Software_Architect_Should_Know_-_The_Book

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