​Architecture​ & Development

Require​d Reading

• ​​Architecture Decision Records​
  
• C4 Model​ (Note: we will only use the first 3 C's.)
  
• Accelerate​
  
• ​​​​​Wardley Maps​
  
• Failure Modes and Continuous Resilience
  

Recomm​ended Reading

• The Principles of Product Development Flow​
• Software Architecture in Practice
  
• Domain-Driven Design
  
• ​Data and Reality, 2ed (Note, the 3rd edition is not as good. Best to stick with 2nd edition.)
  
• The Phoenix Project - A novel about IT transformation with a devops flavor.
  
• ​The Unicorn Project​ - A followup to the Phoenix Project that looks more directly at development.
  
• Pattern Oriented Software Architecture - Volumes 1, 3, and 4.
  
• Release It! - Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software
  

Suggested Reading

• Event Sourcing at Nordstrom
• Part 1
  
• Part 2​
  
• Enterprise Architecture as Strategy
  
• Software by Numbers - Discusses crucial concept of "marketable features" and "architecture elements" to support them. Lays out a method for incrementally delivering architecture as we incrementally deliver features.
  
• CAP and Relativity
  
• ​​​Out of the Tar Pit - The essential paper on essential versus accidental complexity. We are drowning in accidental complexity.
  
• ​Ultratestable Coding​​​
  
• Domain-Oriented Observability
  
• Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System - Donella Meadows' cornerstone paper.
  
• Metaphors We Live By​