" Designing Software Architectures " will teach you how to design any software architecture in a systematic, predictable, repeatable, and cost-effective way. This is the first book dedicated solely to architecture design, and it introduces a practical methodology that any professional software engineer can use, provides structured methods supported by reusable chunks of design knowledge, and includes rich case studies that demonstrate how to use the methods. Using realistic examples, you ll master the powerful, new Attribute-Driven Design (ADD) 3.0 process and will learn how to use it to address key tradeoffs such as schedule, cost, performance, evolvability, usability, and availability. Drawing on their extensive experience, SEI expert Rick Kazman and Humberto Cervantes guide you through crafting practical designs that support the full architecture lifecycle, from requirements to documentation. You ll learn how to successfully integrate design in your organizational context, and how to design systems that will be built with agile methods. Comprehensive coverage includes

• Understanding what architecture design involves, and where it fits in the full architecture lifecycle
• Mastering core design concepts, principles, and processes
• Linking design drivers to design decisions, and linking decisions to available implementation options
• Scaling design and analysis up or down, including design for pre-sale processes or lightweight architecture reviews
• Recognizing and optimizing critical relationships between analysis and design
• Utilizing proven, reusable design primitives and adapting architectural patterns to your specific problem and context
• Solving design problems in new domains, including cloud, mobile, and big data

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