Beautiful Architecture: Leading Thinkers Reveal the Hidden Beauty in Software Design

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:

• 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.

This book includes contributions from:

John Klein and David Weiss • Pet Goodliffe • Jim Waldo • Michael Nygard • Brian Sietten • Dave Fetterman • Derek Murray and Keir Fraser • Greg Lehey • Rhys Newman and Christopher Denis • Ian Rogers and Dave Grove • Jim Blandy • Till Adam and Mirko Boehm • Bertrand Meyer • Panagiotis Louridas