Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright and Credits -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Section 1: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Introducing Software Architecture -- Software architecture in a nutshell -- A software architect's duties -- Introducing the different architecture disciplines -- EA -- Positioning software architecture within the global architecture landscape -- Summary -- Section 2: The Broader Architecture Landscape -- Chapter 2: Exploring Architecture Frameworks and Methodologies -- Introducing frameworks and methodologies

Delving into TOGAF, ArchiMate, and related tools -- EA -- Introducing TOGAF's ADM -- Building blocks -- Architecture patterns -- EA wrap-up -- Introducing security frameworks -- COBIT for risk -- NIST -- ITIL in a nutshell -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Understanding ATAM and the Software Quality Attributes -- Introducing ATAM -- Understanding sensitivity points, trade-off points, risks, and non-risks -- Exploring quality attributes -- Getting started with quality-attribute scenarios -- Practical use case -- Utility trees -- Quality-attribute scenarios -- Identified sensitivity points

Architectural approaches -- ATAM and agile at scale -- Summary -- Section 3: Software Design Patterns and Architecture Models -- Chapter 4: Reviewing the Historical Architecture Styles -- Introducing architecture styles -- Starting with monoliths -- Benefits of monoliths -- Challenges of monoliths -- Continuing with service-oriented architecture (SOA) -- Benefits of SOA -- Challenges of SOA -- Microservices -- Benefits of microservices -- Challenges of microservices -- Hosting microservices -- Microservices in action -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Design Patterns and Clean Architecture

Technical requirements -- Understanding design patterns and their purpose -- Reviewing the GoF -- Delving into the most recurrent patterns and applying them to a use-case scenario -- Understanding the DI pattern -- Exploring the singleton design pattern -- Factory method -- Lazy loading/initialization pattern -- Strategy pattern -- Mediator pattern -- Facade design pattern -- Repository design pattern -- Design patterns use case -- Looking at clean architecture -- My top 10 code smells -- Summary -- Section 4: Impact of the Cloud on Software Architecture Practices

Chapter 6: Impact of the Cloud on the Software Architecture Practice -- Technical requirements -- Introducing cloud service models, the cloud, and cloud-native systems -- Software as a Service (SaaS) -- Function as a Service (FaaS) -- Platform as a Service (PaaS) -- Containers as a Service (CaaS) -- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) -- Anything as a Service (XaaS or *aaS) -- Service models and software quality attributes -- Cloud versus cloud native -- Mapping cloud services to architecture styles and patterns -- Reviewing cloud and cloud-native patterns -- The Cache-Aside pattern