Beautiful Architecture

C O N T E N T S

FOREWORD ix

by Stephen J. Mellor

PREFACE xiii

Part One ON ARCHITECTURE

1 WHAT IS ARCHITECTURE? 3
by John Klein and David Weiss
Introduction 3
Creating a Software Architecture 10
Architectural Structures 14
Good Architectures 19
Beautiful Architectures 20
Acknowledgments 23
References 23

2 A TALE OF TWO SYSTEMS: A MODERN-DAY SOFTWARE FABLE 25
by Pete Goodliffe
The Messy Metropolis 26
Design Town 33
So What? 41
Your Turn 41
References 42

Part Two ENTERPRISE APPLICATION ARCHITECTURE

3 ARCHITECTING FOR SCALE 45
by Jim Waldo
Introduction 45
Context 47
The Architecture 51
Thoughts on the Architecture 57

4 MAKING MEMORIES 63
by Michael Nygard
Capabilities and Constraints 64
Workflow 65
Architecture Facets 66
User Response 87

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