Foundations of software architecture

This part defines some ideas which are used throughout the book:

• Complexity and its relation to modules, coupling and cohesion.
• Forces (including non-functional requirements), their conflicts, and how those are resolved through asynchronous communication and distribution of system components.
• Different kinds of software systems: control, interactive, streaming, and computational.
• Communication paradigms: orchestration, choreography and shared data.

Please feel free to skip (through) it as you probably know most of them quite well.

Contents:

• Modules and complexity
• Forces, asynchronicity, and distribution
• Four kinds of software
• Arranging communication
  • Programming and architectural paradigms
  • Orchestration
  • Choreography
  • Shared data
  • Comparison of communication styles

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