The Architecture Of Open Source Applications, Volume I

Architects look at thousands of buildings during their training, and study critiques of those buildings written by masters. In contrast, most software developers only ever get to know a handful of large programs well – usually programs they wrote themselves – and never study the great programs of history. As a result, they repeat one another’s mistakes rather than building on one another’s successes. This book’s goal is to change that. In it, the authors of twenty-five open source applications explain how their software is structured, and why. What are each program’s major components? How do they interact? And what did their builders learn during their development? In answering these questions, the contributors to this book provide unique insights into how they think.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Asterisk
Chapter 2. Audacity
Chapter 3. The Bourne-Again Shell
Chapter 4. Berkeley DB
Chapter 5. CMake
Chapter 6. Continuous Integration
Chapter 7. Eclipse
Chapter 8. Graphite
Chapter 9. The Hadoop Distributed File System
Chapter 10. Jitsi
Chapter 11. LLVM
Chapter 12. Mercurial
Chapter 13. The NoSQL Ecosystem
Chapter 14. Python Packaging
Chapter 15. Riak and Erlang/OTP
Chapter 16. Selenium WebDriver
Chapter 17. Sendmail
Chapter 18. SnowFlock
Chapter 19. SocialCalc
Chapter 20. Telepathy
Chapter 21. Thousand Parsec
Chapter 22. Violet
Chapter 23. VisTrails
Chapter 24. VTK
Chapter 25. Battle For Wesnoth