My Books

Software Systems Architecture

Software Systems Architecture is a practitioner-oriented guide to designing and implementing effective architectures for information systems that I wrote with Nick Rozanski in 2005 and we produced a second edition in 2011.

This book shows why software architecture is central to any successful information systems development project, and, by presenting a set of architectural viewpoints and perspectives, provides specific direction for improving your own and your organization’s approach to software systems arc

It is both a readily accessible introduction to software architecture and an valuable handbook of timeless and proven architectural practices.

In the book we explain why architectural work is central to any successful information systems development project and, by presenting a set of architectural viewpoints and perspectives, provides specific direction for improving your own and your organization’s approach to software systems architecture.

We have been very pleased with the reception that the book received with both practitioners and academics judging by the large number of copies we have sold.

The website for the book is: www.viewpoints-and-perspectives.info

The book is available on Amazon here

Continuous Architecture in Practice

Continuous Architecture In Practice is a modern and practical guide to software architecture for practitioners working in the age of Agility and DevOps, that I co-authored with Murat Erder and Pierre Purer in 2021. The book builds on the original Continuous Architecture book that Murat and Pierre wrote in 2015 by providing a lot of practical advice on how to address key quality attributes.

We observed that traditional architecture practices have served us well for many years, but weren’t developed with an understanding of the demands of the era of DevOps, agility, cloud, and microservices. However, today, effective architecture is more important than ever.

We decided to write the book because we recognised that the demands of modern software engineering mean that we need updated architecture practices that allow organizations to effectively manage complex, conflicting and cross-cutting concerns such as resilience, security, and technical coherence, and meet the fast-changing needs of complex groups of stakeholders.

In Continuous Architecture in Practice we explain how to update the discipline’s classic practices for today’s environments, software development contexts, and applications.

The website for the book is: https://continuousarchitecture.com

The book is available on Amazon here

Software Architecture Metrics

Software Architecture Metrics is a recently released book, published in 2022, that asked ten software architecture authors to consider what software architecture metrics meant to them, and to contribute a chapter explaining their viewpoint in a practical way that would allow the reader to benefit from their experience.

The result is a book of essays that explore the topic of software architecture metrics from a range of different perspectives, each one providing a different set of insights about using metrics in the activities of software architecture

Each chapter explains the insights from one author and includes a case study to illustrate the lessons that the author is trying to explain.

The publisher's page for the book is here

The book is available on Amazon here

Aligning Enterprise, System, and Software Architectures

This book, published in 2012, is an academic monograph containing a group of related papers from academic researchers and industrial software architecture practitioners exploring the relationship between enterprise, system and software architecture.

Each chapter provides a different perspective on the topic, including a chapter titled Relating Enterprise, Application, and Infrastructure Architects by Nick Rozanski and myself.

The publisher's page for the book is here.

The book is available for a horifyingly expensive price on Amazon.

You can find a (free!) preprint of the chapter that Nick and I contributed to the book on the Writing page.