Here is a list of the best Software Architecture books, some I have read myself, some that I did research on, and all have great reviews!
1. Clean Architecture: A Craftsman’s Guide to Software Structure and Design (Robert C. Martin Series) (2017)
By applying universal rules of software architecture, you can dramatically improve developer productivity throughout the life of any software system. Now, building upon the success of his best-selling books Clean Code and The Clean Coder, legendary software craftsman Robert C. Martin (“Uncle Bob”) reveals those rules and helps you apply them. Martin’s doesn’t merely present options. Drawing on over a half-century of experience in software environments of every imaginable type, Martin tells you what choices to make and why they are…
2. Software Architect’s Handbook: Become a successful software architect by implementing effective architecture concepts (2018)
Key Features Book DescriptionThe Software Architect’s Handbook is a comprehensive guide to help developers, architects, and senior programmers advance their career in the software architecture domain. This book takes you through all the important concepts, right from design principles to different considerations at various stages of your career in software architecture.The book begins by covering the fundamentals, benefits, and purpose of software architecture. You will discover how software architecture relates to an organization, followed by identifying its significant quality…
3. Design It!: From Programmer to Software Architect (The Pragmatic Programmers) (2017)
Don’t engineer by coincidence-design it like you mean it! Filled with practical techniques, Design It! is the perfect introduction to software architecture for programmers who are ready to grow their design skills. Lead your team as a software architect, ask the right stakeholders the right questions, explore design options, and help your team implement a system that promotes the right -ilities. Share your design decisions, facilitate collaborative design workshops that are fast, effective, and fun-and develop more awesome software!With dozens of design…
4. Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change (2017)
The software development ecosystem is constantly changing, providing a constant stream of new tools, frameworks, techniques, and paradigms. Over the past few years, incremental developments in core engineering practices for software development have created the foundations for rethinking how architecture changes over time, along with ways to protect important architectural characteristics as it evolves. This practical guide ties those parts together with a new way to think about architecture and time. #62,306 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #22 in Computer Hardware Design & Architecture #139 in Software…
5. Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems (2017)
Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues need to be figured out, such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability. In addition, we have an overwhelming variety of tools, including relational databases, NoSQL datastores, stream or batch processors, and message brokers. What are the right choices for your application? How do you make sense of all these buzzwords?In this practical and comprehensive guide, author Martin Kleppmann helps you navigate this diverse landscape by examining the pros and cons of various technologies for processing and storing data. Software keeps…
6. Fundamentals of Software Architecture: A Comprehensive Guide to Patterns, Characteristics, and Best Practices (2020)
Although salary surveys worldwide regularly identify software architect as one of the top ten best jobs, no decent guides exist to help developers become architects. Until now. This practical guide provides the first comprehensive overview of software architecture’s many aspects. You’ll examine architectural characteristics, architectural patterns, component determination, diagramming and presenting architecture, evolutionary architecture, and many other topics.Authors Neal Ford and Mark Richards help you learn through examples in a variety of…
7. Cloud Native Architectures: Design high-availability and cost-effective applications for the cloud (2018)
Key Features Book DescriptionCloud computing has proven to be the most revolutionary IT development since virtualization. Cloud native architectures give you the benefit of more flexibility over legacy systems. To harness this, businesses need to refresh their development models and architectures when they find they don’t port to the cloud. Cloud Native Architectures demonstrates three essential components of deploying modern cloud native architectures: organizational transformation, deployment modernization, and cloud native architecture patterns.This book starts with a quick introduction to cloud native architectures…
8. Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, Second Edition (2004)
Widely considered one of the best practical guides to programming, Steve McConnell’s original CODE COMPLETE has been helping developers write better software for more than a decade. Now this classic book has been fully updated and revised with leading-edge practices—and hundreds of new code samples—illustrating the art and science of software construction. Capturing the body of knowledge available from research, academia, and everyday commercial practice, McConnell synthesizes the most effective techniques and must-know…
9. Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (2008)
Even bad code can function. But if code isn’t clean, it can bring a development organization to its knees. Every year, countless hours and significant resources are lost because of poorly written code. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Noted software expert Robert C. Martin presents a revolutionary paradigm with . Martin has teamed up with his colleagues from Object Mentor to distill their best agile practice of cleaning code “on the fly” into a book that will instill within you the values of a software craftsman and make you a better programmer—but only if you work at…
10. Software Architecture Fundamentals: A Study Guide for the Certified Professional for Software Architecture® – Foundation Level – iSAQB compliant (2019)
Software architecture is an important factor in ensuring the success of any software project. It provides a systematically designed framework that ensures the fulfilment of quality requirements such as expandability, flexibility, performance, and time-to-market. A software architect’s job is to reconcile customer requirements with the available technical options and constraints while designing an overall structure that allows all components of the system to interact smoothly. This book gives you all the basic know-how you need to begin designing…
11. The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (1999)
— Ward Cunningham Straight from the programming trenches, The Pragmatic Programmer cuts through the increasing specialization and technicalities of modern software development to examine the core process–taking a requirement and producing working, maintainable code that delights its users. It covers topics ranging from personal responsibility and career development to architectural techniques for keeping your code flexible and easy to adapt and reuse. Read this book, and youll learn how to *Fight software rot; *Avoid the trap of duplicating knowledge; *Write flexible, dynamic, and adaptable code; *Avoid programming by…
12. Technology Strategy Patterns: Architecture as Strategy (2018)
Technologists who want their ideas heard, understood, and funded are often told to speak the language of business—without really knowing what that is. This book’s toolkit provides architects, product managers, technology managers, and executives with a shared language—in the form of repeatable, practical patterns and templates—to produce great technology strategies.Author Eben Hewitt developed 39 patterns over the course of a decade in his work as CTO, CIO, and chief architect for several global tech companies. With these proven tools, you can define, create, elaborate, refine, and communicate your architecture…
13. Righting Software (2019)
presents the proven, structured, and highly engineered approach to software design that master architect Juval Löwy has practiced and taught around the world. Although companies of every kind have successfully implemented his original design ideas across hundreds of systems, these insights have never before appeared in print. Based on first principles in software engineering and a comprehensive set of matching tools and techniques, Löwy’s methodology integrates system design and project design. First, he describes the one area where many software architects fail and shows how to decompose a…
Best Software Architecture Books to Read
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Hands-On Software Architecture with C# 8 and .NET Core 3
Author(s): Gabriel Baptista, Francesco Abbruzzese
Publisher: Packt Publishing, Year: November 2019, Size: 12 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2461457
Fundamentals of Software Architecture: A Comprehensive Guide to Patterns, Characteristics, and Best Practices
Author(s): Neal Ford; Mark Richards
Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Year: 2020, Size: 52 Mb, Download: epub
ID: 2464830
Software Architecture for Business
Author(s): Lina Khalid
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Year: 2020, Size: 5 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2467644
Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach
Author(s): Mark Richards; Neal Ford
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Year: 2020, Size: 53 Mb, Download: epub
ID: 2476395
Hands-On Design Patterns with Java - Learn Design Patterns That Enable the Building of Large-Scale Software Architectures.
Author(s): Edward Lavieri
Publisher: Packt, Year: 2020, Size: 12 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2476529
Analysis and Design of Next-Generation Software Architectures: 5G, IoT, Blockchain, and Quantum Computing
Author(s): Arthur M. Langer
Publisher: Springer Nature, Year: 2020, Size: 16 Mb, Download: epub
ID: 2502568
Software Architecture FundamentalsA Study Guide for the Certified Professional for Software Architecture – Foundation Level – iSAQB compliant
Author(s): Mahbouba Gharbi & Arne Koschel & Andreas Rausch
Publisher: Rocky Nook, Year: 2019, Size: 8 Mb, Download: epub
ID: 2392146
Sustainable Software Architecture: Analyze and Reduce Technical Debt
Author(s): Lilienthal, Carola
Publisher: dpunkt.verlag, Year: 2019, Size: 34 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2467135
Software Architecture: 13th European Conference, ECSA 2019, Paris, France, September 9–13, 2019, Proceedings
Author(s): Tomas Bures, Laurence Duchien, Paola Inverardi
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Year: 2019, Size: 13 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2469494
Software Architecture Fundamentals: A Study Guide for the Certified Professional for Software Architecture® – Foundation Level – iSAQB compliant
Author(s): Mahbouba Gharbi; Arne Koschel; Andreas Rausch
Publisher: Rocky Nook, Year: 2019, Size: 8 Mb, Download: epub
ID: 2502689
Please note that this booklist is not errorless. Some books are absolutely chart-busters according to Los Angeles Times, others are composed by unknown writers. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant books you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.