Software Architecture Best Practices – Essential Ideas
It is time to wrap up the season of software architecture from scratch. We have covered a broad range of topics and now are able to look over them as a whole. …
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Author: Rob Broadhead
Rob is a founder of, and frequent contributor to, Develpreneur. This includes the Building Better Developers podcast. He is also a lifetime learner as a developer, designer, and manager of software solutions. Rob is the founder of RB Consulting and has managed to author a book about his family experiences and a few about becoming a better developer.
In his free time, he stays busy raising five children (although they have grown into adults). When he has a chance to breathe, he is on the ice playing hockey to relax or working on his ballroom dance skills.
Middle Tier Architecture – Designing The Business Rules
We have looked at a broad range of topics this season. However, it is time for us to tackle the middle tier architecture. Thus, we need to consider process steps (or flow)…
Architectural Documentation – Communicate Your Decisions
At some point in your project, architectural documentation becomes an essential piece of the deliverables. This material is often a set of diagrams and bullet points. However, there is more that we…
Cohesion or Coupling – Essential Architecture Decisions
A critical design decision in the object-oriented world is whether to choose cohesion or coupling. These two approaches are not mutually exclusive. However, it is rare to see a mix of the…
Class Architecture And General Grouping of Features
Object names and namespaces are just the beginning of creating a class architecture. We need to consider globally available values, data hiding, abstraction, and how to group features. The old “is-a” and…
Session Management – Architecting State Data
Most modern business applications have some state or context. This model can be easy to implement in a stand-alone application. However, multi-user applications like web sites can be a challenge when you…