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Solution Architecture links, articles, books, video lessons, etc.

Solution Architecture

• Solution Architecture
• Software Architecture Discipline Overview
• Software Architecture - Getting Started - Glossary
• Awesome Project Questions
• Awesome Scalability, Availability, and Stability Back-end Design Patterns
• The Full-Stack Software Design and Architecture Roadmap
• Software Architect
• Skills map and roles & responsibilities of Solution Architects
• Software Architecture in Practice

Architectural Patterns

• The (mostly incomplete) guide to architecture patterns
• Architectural Patterns
• List of software architecture styles and patterns
• Patterns for designing flexible architecture in node.js (CQRS/ES/Onion)
• Various design patterns
• Enterprise Integration Patterns
• Pattern: Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS)
• Command and Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) in practice (RU)
• Greg Young - CQRS and Event Sourcing - Code on the Beach 2014
• Sam Newman - Patterns
• Solutions Architecture Patterns

Microservices

• Microservices
• How To Cook Microservices (with Ruby spices)
• Microservices and Rules Engines – a blast from the past
• A pattern language for microservices
• A curated list of Microservice Architecture related principles and technologies
• A curated list of Microservice resources
• Links related to the microservice architecture
• A list of resources for building and testing microservice architectures
• Examples of real world software built with a microservice architecture
• A hand-curated weekly newsletter with the best articles on microservices
• Designing a Microservices Architecture for Failure
• Observable Microservices
• A practical concept of Microservices Architecture
• Microservice Architecture: All The Best Practices You Need To Know
• The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018
• The 10 Puzzle Pieces of an Effective Microservice Architecture
• Free Ebook: Microservice Architecture from O'Reilly
• Microservices Pattern: Decompose by business capability
• Pattern: Decompose by subdomain

Articles

• Architectural Shift in Web Applications
• Application Architecture and Ransomware
• Monitoring Microservices Architectures: Enterprise Best Practices
• Architectural Blueprints — The "4+1" View Model of Software Architecture
• Clean Frontend Architecture
• How I write backends
• DDD 101 — The 5-Minute Tour
• Wrong Ways of Defining Service Boundaries
• A quick introduction to clean architecture

Blogs

• Coding the Architecture
• Risingstack: we help companies succeed with Node.js
• Medium @ Software Architecture
• Medium @ Microservices
• 8L @ Architecture
• Software Design | Khalil Stemmler
• Jimmy Bogard

Video

• O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference 2016: Integration Architecture
• [Pluralsight] Become a Full-stack .NET Developer - Architecture and Testing [2016, ENG]
• [Pluralsight.com / Allen Holub] Picturing Architecture: UML (The Good Bits) and More [2016, ENG]
• [O'Reilly Media] Software Architecture Fundamentals Service-Based Architectures [2015, ENG]
• [O'Reilly Media] Software Architecture Fundamentals Soft Skills [2015, ENG]
• [O'Reilly Media] Software Architecture Fundamentals People Skills [2015, ENG]
• [O'Reilly Media] Software Architecture Fundamentals Part I [2014, ENG]
• [O'Reilly Media] Software Architecture Fundamentals Beyond the Basics [2014, ENG]
• [learnvisualstudio.net] Application Architecture Fundamentals [2013, ENG]
• [Pluralsight] Developer to Architect [2013, ENG]
• [Pluralsight.com / Matthew Renze] Clean Architecture: Patterns, Practices, and Principles [2017, ENG]
• IASA's Five Pillars of IT Architecture
• [OTUS] Архитектор программного обеспечения (2020)
• Алексей Богачук — Solution architecture и JavaScript

Online Courses

• Software Architecture from University of Alberta
• Service-Oriented Architecture from University of Alberta

University Lectures

• Software Architecture Software Engineering - 2017 - Saarland University

Documents

• All you ever need to construct, communicate and document your software architecture
• Solution Architecture Document
• Structured Approach to Solution Architecture
• Sample Views
• Example of a Software Architecture Document created as a companion to "Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond"
• Documenting Software Architectures
• Architecture Document Template

Microfrontends

• Micro Frontends
• Introduction to Micro Frontends
• The javascript metaframework
• A microservice approach to front-end web development
• ThoughtWorks Technology Radar: Micro frontends
• Modernizing Upwork with Micro Frontends
• Presentation: Micro Frontends: Building a modern webapp with multiple teams 
• Microservice Grid and Micro Frontends
• The monolithic frontend in the microservices architecture 
• Managing Frontend in the Microservices Architecture (Monolithic vs. Frankenstein approach)
• Including Front-End Web Components Into Microservices 
• Wilson Mendes: Micro Frontend - A Microservice Architecture From ... - JSConf.Asia 2018
• Micro Frontends @ martinfowler.com
• awesome-micro-frontends
• Microfrontends — Bringing JavaScript frameworks together

Tools

• Stack on a budget (Free Tier Driven Development FTDD)
• All the best open source and Software as a Service (SaaS) tools in one place
• Periodic table of devops tools
• Job queues, message queues and other queues. Almost all of them in one place
• fabio: A fast, modern, zero-conf load balancing HTTP(S) router for deploying microservices managed by consul
• strider: Open Source Continuous Integration & Deployment Server
• cabot: Self-hosted, easily-deployable monitoring and alerts service - like a lightweight PagerDuty
• Elasticsearch
• Solr
• Consule: Service Discovery and Configuration Made Easy
• pm2: Production Process Manager for Node.js apps with a built-in Load Balancer
• bazooka: Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment Server
• istio: An open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices
• registrator: Service registry bridge for Docker with pluggable adapters
• The fastest, most reliable, Redis-based queue for Node

.NET Starters

• A starting point for Clean Architecture with ASP.NET Core
• Sample .NET Core reference application, powered by Microsoft, based on a simplified microservices architecture and Docker containers
• This project contains a 10-tier microservices application
• A containerized polyglot microservices consisting of services based on .NET Core, NodeJS and more running on service mesh (istio)
• A starting point for Clean Architecture with ASP.NET Core
• Clean Architecture Solution Template for Angular 8 and .NET Core 3

Node.js Starters

• DDD/Clean Architecture inspired boilerplate for Node web APIs
• Implementation of a bulletproof node.js API

Other

• Microsoft REST API Guidelines
• Study Notes for AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate - 2017
• Techniques
• Work-breakdown structure
• Quality Attribute Workshop (QAW)
• A guide to RESTful API design: 35+ must-reads
• The System Design Primer

CSS

• CSS Architecture — Folders & Files Structure
• CSS Architecture for Multiple Websites
• Five Methodologies for Architecting CSS
• CSS Architecture: First steps
• 8 simple rules for a robust, scalable CSS architecture
• Kushagra Gour: 10 Commandments for Efficient CSS Architecture - CSSConf.Asia 2014
• Jonathan Snook - Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS [2012, PDF, ENG]
• Architecture for a Sass Project
• CSS Architecture and the Three Pillars of Maintainable CSS

EPAM Solution Architecture

• Solution Architecture
• Who Is Solution Architect
• Best Practices In Solution Architecture
• Self Education In Solution Architecture
• Webinars
• EPAM Yammer: Solution Architecture Group
• Solution Architect: A Complete Guide
• EPAM Architecture Excellence Initiative
  • Solution Architecture Introduction
  • Business Architecture
  • Quality Attributes, ASR (Part 1/2)
  • Solution Architecture School Quality Attributes, ASR Part 2/2
  • Architecture Modeling
  • Architecture Documentation (Part 1/3)
  • Architecture Documentation (Part 2/3)
  • Architecture Documentation (Part 3/3)

Books

• General Architectural Theory and Practice
  • .NET Microservices – Architecture for Containerized .NET Applications
  • Microsoft Application Architecture Guide, 2nd Edition
  • Microservices, IoT, and Azure
  • Microservice Architecture : Aligning Principles, Practices, and Culture
  • Information Architecture
  • Microsoft .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise
  • Big Data Application Architecture Q&A : A Problem - Solution Approach
  • Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems
  • Software Architecture in Practice
  • Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond
  • Designing Software Architectures: A Practical Approach (SEI Series in Software Engineering)
  • Software Systems Architecture: Working With Stakeholders Using Viewpoints and Perspectives
  • Essential Software Architecture
  • Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach (Irwin Computer Science)
  • 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts
  • Evaluating Software Architectures: Methods and Case Studies 
  • Reactive Design Patterns
  • Software Architecture for Developers
  • Beautiful Architecture: Leading Thinkers Reveal the Hidden Beauty in Software Design
  • 500 Lines or Less
  • The Performance of Open Source Applications
  • The Architecture Of Open Source Applications
  • The Architecture Of Open Source Applications, Volume II
• Aspects
  • Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
  • Implementing Domain-Driven Design
  • Data Access for Highly-Scalable Solutions: Using SQL, NoSQL, and Polyglot Persistence (Data Access)
  • Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
  • Service Design Patterns: Fundamental Design Solutions for SOAP/WSDL and RESTful Web Services
  • Building microservices
  • REST in Practice: Hypermedia and Systems Architecture
  • APIs: A Strategy Guide. Creating Channels with Application Programming Interfaces
  • The Security Development Lifecycle: SDL: A Process for Developing Demonstrably More Secure Software
  • Microservice Databases: Migrating from Relational Monolith to Distributed Data
• Enterprise
  • Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions
  • Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
  • Microsoft .NET - Architecting Applications for the Enterprise (2nd Edition)
  • NoSQL Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Emerging World of Polyglot Persistence
• CI/CD
  • DevOps: A Software Architect's Perspective (SEI Series in Software Engineering)
  • Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation
  • Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software
  • The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
• Technology Domains
  • Amazon Web Services in Action
  • Docker in Action
  • Professional Hadoop Solutions
  • Microsoft Application Architecture Guide
  • .NET Application Architecture Guide
  • eCommerce in the Cloud: Bringing Elasticity to eCommerce
  • 12 Essential Skill for Software Architect
  • Seven Languages in Seven Weeks
  • Seven Databases in Seven Weeks 
  • Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks
  • Seven Web Frameworks in Seven Weeks
  • TIBCO Architecture Fundamentals
• Development
  • 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts
  • Agile Estimating and Planning
  • Applying UML and Patterns: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and Iterative Development
  • Crystal Clear: A Human-Powered Methodology for Small Teams
  • Managing and Leading Software Projects
  • Object-Oriented Software Construction
  • Class 7: Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
  • Class 14: Risk Management
  • Test Driven Development: By Example
  • Micro Frontends in Action
• Other
  • Decomposing a monolithic app into multiple microservices