Awesome Architecture

A collection of awesome references regarding Software Architecture.

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• General Architecture Topics
  • Consulting and Training Services
  • Traininig Providers and Conference Hosts
  • Podcasts
  • Articles
  • Enterprise Architecture, Organization Development
  • Modeling and Documentation
  • Architectural Katas
  • Evolutionary Architecture
  • Software Tools
  • Lists of Recommended Books and Authors
• Architecture Principles and Patterns
• Domain Driven Design
  • Tools
  • Trainings on DDD
  • Audio
  • Web-Links on DDD
  • Books on DDD
• Architecture Evaluation
  • Trainings on Architecture Evaluation
  • Web Links on Architecture Evaluation
  • Books
• Microservice and Self Contained Systems Architecture
  • Trainings on Microservice and SCS Architecture
  • Web Links on Microservice and SCS Architecture

General Architecture Topics

• International Software Architecture Qualification Board (iSAQB) - The International Standard in Training and Certification of Software Architects.
  • iSAQB-Community - A community for knowledge exchange among certified software architects - independent from commercial interests.
  • The iSAQB® Blog
• The (new) Software Architecture Foundation Curriculum - Summary about what Software Architects should learn, including lots of references.
  • Certified Professional for Software Architecture® (CPSA) - Individual curricula for the CPSA-F and the advanced level courses.

Consulting and Training Services

• innoq
• embarc Software Consulting GmbH
• oose Informatik GmbH
• WPS Work Place Solutions

Traininig Providers and Conference Hosts

• socreatory - The Software Creators' Academy - a collaboration of embarc and INNOQ.
• Software Architecture Camp
• S&S Software & Support Media

Podcasts

• Conversations about Software Architecture (CASE Podcast)

• heise Software ArchitekTOUR Podcast (German)

• INNOQ Podcast (German)

Articles

• Eberhard Wolff: Software-Architektur: Worauf es ankommt

• embarc: Architekturspicker - Short summaries of different aspects of software architecture.

• innoq: Primer - Quick introduction into different aspects of software architecture.

• Thoughtworks Technology Radar - An opinionated guide to technology frontiers.

Enterprise Architecture, Organization Development

• Game storming - Co-Creation Tools used by innovators around the world.
• cards42.org - Cards for Analyzing and Reflecting on Doomed Software.

Modeling and Documentation

• adr.github.io - Homepage of the ADR GitHub organization.

  • Markdown Any Decision Record - a lean template to capture any decisions in a structured way.

• Stefan Zörner: So sieht’s aus! Architekturüberblicke – Tipps und Tricks - Talk about creating an architecture overview.

• Stefan Zörner: Architektur ohne Firlefanz - Ihre Lösung auf einem Bierdeckel - How a minimal architecture documentation can look like (in German).

  • Falk Sippach: Corona-Warn-App unter der Lupe - The German Corona Warn App System as an example for minimal architecture documentation (in German).

• Gernot Starke et al.: arc42 Template

  • Gernot Starke et al.: arc42 Documentation
  • Gernot Starke: Html Sanity Check as example for arc42
  • Stefan Zörner: DokChess als Beispiel für arc42
  • Stefan Zörner: Konzept oder Entscheidung in arc42?

• Simon Brown: The C4 Model for Visualizing Software Architecture

  • Phillip Beauvoir & Jean-Baptiste Sarrodie: C4 Model, Architecture Viewpoint and Archi 4.7

• Agile Modeling - Effective Practices for Modeling and Documentation.

• oose Innovative Informatik GmbH: UML 2.5 Notationsübersicht - A short PDF with an example for each UML2.5 diagram type (in German).

• UML - UML link collection.

  • PlantUML in a nutshell - A quick overview on different UML / non-UML diagram types.
  • Kapitel 5.1 "Die Diagrammarten der UML2" in Gernot Starke: Effektive Softwarearchitekturen, Hanser Verlag, 5. überarbeitete Auflage, 2011. ISBN: 978-3-446-42728-0.

• Diagrams - Diagrams lets you draw the cloud system architecture in Python code.

Architectural Katas

• Architectural Katas - Exercise being a Software Architect.

• Neal Ford: Architectural Katas - Katas curated by Neal Ford.

• Google User Group: ArchitecturalKatas - Organize or discuss architectural katas.

• (Katas are down, error 410) Ted Neward: Architectural Katas - Reference to the original materials - unfortunately the katas are down, probably due to an outdated bitbucket API reference.

Evolutionary Architecture

• Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, Patrick Kua: Building Evolutionary Architecture, O'Reilly Media, Inc., 09/2017, ISBN: 9781491986363

• Paula Paul, Rosemary Wang: Fitness function-driven development - Overview and tips on how to start.

• Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, Patrick Kua: Fitness Function Katas

Software Tools

• ArchiMate - Open source modelling toolkit to create ArchiMate models and sketches. Used by thousands of Enterprise Architects throughout the world.

• Axivion Suite - Quantitative Software- and Architecture-Quality Analysis.

• Bizagi Business Process Modeling

• BPMN Modeler (Free) for Confluence Cloud

• Code Scene - Source code analyzer which specializes on analyzing team dynamics from vcs data*

• Enterprise Architect

• docs as code

  • docToolChain
  • docToolchain: How to install docToolchain - How to setup docToolchain and a new arc42 based documentation folder.
  • Gernot Starke: Html Sanity Check
  • AsciiDoctor Writer's Guide - Gentle introduction to AsciiDoc.
  • AsciiDoc Syntax Quick Reference
  • AsciiDoc Language Documentation - Detailed reference manual.
  • AsciiDoctor Skins (CSS)
  • AsciiDoctor PDF Theming Guide
  • Asciidoctor reveal.js Documentation - transform an AsciiDoc document into an HTML5 presentation.
    • Benjamin Schmid: bentolor / java9to13 - a HTML5 Asciidoctor / Asciidoctor-RevealJS based presentation about everyting new and important since Java 8.

• Workplace Solutios Domain Story Modeller - Domain Story Modelling online.

• Modelio - The open source modeling environment.

• pandoc template Eisvogel - pandoc LaTeX template to convert your markdown files to PDF or LaTeX.

• PlantUML - Draw diagrams from text description

  • PlantText UML Editor - Online editor and renderer for PlantUML.

• Sonargraph

• Structurizr

  • Github Repository
  • Simon Brown: Visualise, document and explore your software architecture, NDC { London }, 2017.

• Structure101 - Structure101 developer guide

Lists of Recommended Books and Authors

• iSAQB: Empfohlene Literatur - Literature on software architecture recommended by the international Software Architecture Qualification Board.

• iSAQB References for Software Architecture - An extensive and annotate list of references (books, articles, links) regarding software architecture (and development).

• Grady Booch: Books in Handbook of Software Architecture - Grady Booch's list of books on software architecture.

• iSAQB Glossary of Software Architecture Terminology - An extensive glossary of software architecture (and development) terminology.

• Eberhard Wolff

Architecture Principles and Patterns

• 12factors.net - A methodology for building software-as-a-service apps.
• Independent Systems Architecture - best practices based on experience in particular with microservices and Self-contained Systems and the challenges faced in those projects.
• Self-Contained Systems (SCS)

Domain Driven Design

Tools

• Workplace Solutions Domain Story Modeler - Online Domain Story Modeler by WPS.

Trainings on DDD

• Software Architecture Camp: Module DDD

Audio

• Podcast: Domain-driven Design (Part 1, German) in - heise Software ArchitekTOUR Podcast (German), episode 59

Web-Links on DDD

• DDD Heuristics
• Domain Storytelling - Describes what Domain Storytelling is and how to do it.
• Self-Contained Systems SCS
• Leasing Ninja - Hands-On Example.

Books on DDD

• Vaughn Vernon: Domain-Driven Design Distilled
• Vaughn Vernon: Implementing Domain-Driven Design
• Eric Evans: Domain-Driven Design
• Eric Evans: DDD Reference
  • Eric Evans: Domain-Driven Design Referenz (German), übersetzt von Michael Plöd, Christian Stettler, Eberhard Wolff
• Scott Millett and Nick Tune: Patterns, Principles, and Practices of Domain-Driven Design
  • GitHub: elbandit / PPPDDD

Architecture Evaluation

Trainings on Architecture Evaluation

• Learning about classical architecture evaluation

Web Links on Architecture Evaluation

• ATAM the website

  • ATAM: the paper
  • ATAM: all the papers

• Riskology - The simulation from „Waltzing with Bears“

• Troy Meggenis on Statistics - almost anything you could like to have in an approachable format.

• Architecture Evaluation (in German)

• Architecture Improvement Method

Books

• Douglas W. Hubbard: How to Measure Anything, 3d ed, Wiley & Sons, 2014

  • Additional Material on "How to Measure Anything"

• Jane Cleland-Huang and Mark Denne: Software by Numbers Low-Risk, High-Return Development, Sun Microsystems Press, 2004

• Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister: Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2013

Microservice and Self Contained Systems Architecture

Trainings on Microservice and SCS Architecture

• Modul FLEX - Flexible Architekturen: Microservices, Self-contained Systems und Continuous Delivery (German) - A training course on modern web service architecture (gives iSAQB CPSA-AL credits).

Web Links on Microservice and SCS Architecture

• Eberhard Wolff: Technologies for Microservices - Blog article with link collection about general microservice technologies.
• Eberhard Wolff: Microservice Rezepte (German) - Brochure on technology receipes to implement microservices.
• Eberhard Wolff: github / ewolff / scs-esi - Example: Frontend integration for Self Contained Systems using Varnish.