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Software Architect Bootcamp (Paperback)

by Raphael Malveau (Author), Thomas J. Mowbray (Author)

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Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall; New edition edition (25 Oct 2000)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0130274070
ISBN-13: 978-0130274076
Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 17.9 x 2.3 cm

Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,307,464 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This book is a field manual that can train through knowledge and exercises on how to practice software architecture, or improve your practice of software architecture.

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Become a great software architect—hands-on!
Define architectures that leverage today's best design patterns
Maximize scalability and technical flexibility
Lead your technical organization to successful implementation

Your hands-on "field manual" for becoming a great software architect!

This hands-on "field manual" gives developers the essential skills they need to survive and thrive as software architects! You'll find insightful, real-world coverage of everything from design patterns to prototyping, business case development to leadership.

Leading software architects Raphael Malveau and Thomas Mowbray share profound insights and practical solutions for all the key challenges of architectures using objects, components, and distributed Internet computing, showing how to avoid time-consuming pitfalls and costly errors. You'll master proven methods for:

Identifying the best architectural model for any project
Executing heavyweight or lightweight approaches to software architecture
Addressing scalability and long-term business flexibility
Making the most of abstraction, refactoring, and architectural prototyping
Leveraging superior design patterns to improve your implementations

With hands-on exercises, real-life war stories, and a take-no-prisoners attitude, Software Architect Bootcamp won't just help you become a great software architect: it'll help you become a true technical leader of your organization.

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2.0 out of 5 stars A Game of Two Halves, 16 Jan 2002

By	A. K. Johnston "(www.andrewj.com/books)" (LEATHERHEAD United Kingdom) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

Like the famous description of soccer, this book is very much a "game of two halves". Half the book, maybe more, discusses the role of a software architect - the architect's approach, attitude, responsibilities, processes and techniques. This is excellent: clear and concise, encouraging if you are a newcomer but still stimulating if you are a more seasoned architect. It is without doubt one of the best descriptions I have read.

Unfortunately, the other half of the book is less useful. The technical parts are either too simplistic, or too detailed when discussing a particular solution favoured by the authors. The text frequently tends to become a repetitive and thinly-disguised commercial for CORBA, and there is an obsession with standards such as RM-ODP which are simply not relevant to a great many commercial developers. The few examples are very simplistic, with no real discussion of many of the technical issues which a real architecture must address.

The book would have been much better for more care in its editing and presentation. The quality of proof-reading is in general poor, but becomes quite appalling in some of the technical sections - evidence perhaps that the authors allowed their technical stance to dictate a poor choice of word processor. The choice of diagrams seems random: some are good, but some difficult discussions cry out for a diagram (horizontal and vertical partitioning, for example), while in other places a diagram confuses where the text is clear. The reference list is incomplete, omitting even the authors' "primary" reference which is quoted, frequently, in the text. All this is doubly disappointing when you consider that one of the authors is the series editor, and both were co-authors of the excellent "AntiPatterns" book.

My advice: if you are happy with the technological side of software architecture, and want advice on how to be a better architect, then buy this book, but read chapters 5 through 9 before you even attempt to read the first part. If, however, you are seeking technical guidance in the real world of software from Microsoft, Oracle and a host of legacy systems, then look elsewhere...

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5.0 out of 5 stars Good starting point to become a Software Architect, 16 April 2001

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After reading this book I realized that for a long time I allready was doing software architecture work... The use of a military boot camp analogy is delicious, because there is a WAR out there!

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