Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change

The software development ecosystem is constantly changing, providing a constant stream of new tools, frameworks, techniques, and paradigms. Over the past few years, incremental developments in core engineering practices for software development have created the foundations for rethinking how architecture changes over time, along with ways to protect important architectural characteristics as it evolves. This practical guide ties those parts together with a new way to think about architecture and time.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Software Architecture
Chapter 2. Fitness Functions
Chapter 3. Engineering Incremental Change
Chapter 4. Architectural Coupling
Chapter 5. Evolutionary Data
Chapter 6. Building Evolvable Architectures
Chapter 7. Evolutionary Architecture Pitfalls and Antipatterns
Chapter 8. Putting Evolutionary Architecture into Practice