Build coherent software architecture models that connect system views, clarify design decisions, and give stakeholders the context they need to understand system structure and behavior.
Key Features
- Model software architecture and system design through connected views that explain structure and behavior
- Apply the C4 model, viewpoints, and perspectives to communicate architecture clearly to stakeholders
- Examine architecture risks and trade-offs and record key design decisions using maintainable models
- Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook
Book Description
Software architecture diagrams can answer individual questions yet still fail to show how a system fits together. This book shows you how to connect separate views into a coherent architecture model, helping stakeholders understand system structure and behavior, examine trade-offs, and make informed design decisions. Build a foundation in abstraction, metamodels, notation, and visual communication before exploring the C4 model, Viewpoints and Perspectives, 4+1, and TOGAF. Learn to combine C4 with seven viewpoints and seven perspectives, while working with diagram conventions, architecture decision records, version control, and model maintenance. Through a practical marketing system example, you'll draw each view, compare it with the author's version, refine your model, and learn to communicate architecture to stakeholders with different concerns. By the end, you'll be able to model software architecture through connected views, move between abstraction levels with C4, examine risks and trade-offs, document architecture decisions, and communicate system design clearly to technical and business stakeholders.
What you will learn
- Explain software systems through connected architecture views
- Match architecture views to their audience and purpose
- Use the C4 model to navigate architecture abstraction levels
- Build seven viewpoints to answer architecture questions
- Apply perspectives to examine architecture risks and trade-offs
- Record decisions and keep architecture models current
- Model a marketing system with a viewpoint-based method
Who this book is for
This book is for software architects, engineers, technical leads, engineering managers, and developers moving into architecture who need to model software systems and communicate design decisions clearly. Consultants and technical professionals responsible for explaining software architecture will also benefit. A basic understanding of software systems is sufficient; no prior architecture modeling experience is required.
