What are the ingredients of robust, elegant, flexible, and
maintainable software architecture? Beautiful Architecture answers
this question through a collection of intriguing essays from more
than a dozen of today's leading software designers and architects.
In each essay, contributors present a notable software
architecture, and analyze what makes it innovative and ideal for
its purpose.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.

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