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Date: 2009/1/23
Subject: Beautiful Architecture - New from O'Reilly
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Beautiful Architecture--New from O'Reilly
Leading Thinkers Reveal the Hidden Beauty in Software Design

Sebastopol, CA—What are the ingredients of robust, elegant, flexible,
and maintainable software architecture? Beautiful Architecture
(O'Reilly, US $44.99), edited by Diomidis Spinellis and Georgios
Gousios answers this question through a collection of intriguing
essays from more than a dozen of today's leading software designers
and architects. In each essay, contributors present a notable software
architecture, and analyze what makes it innovative and ideal for its
purpose.

Some of the engineers in this book reveal how they developed a
specific project, including decisions they faced and tradeoffs they
made. Others take a step back to investigate how certain architectural
aspects have influenced computing as a whole. With this book, you'll
discover:

How Facebook's architecture is the basis for a data-centric
application ecosystem
The effect of Xen's well-designed architecture on the way operating
systems evolve
How community processes within the KDE project help software
architectures evolve from rough sketches to beautiful systems
How creeping featurism has helped GNU Emacs gain unanticipated functionality
The magic behind the Jikes RVM self-optimizable, self-hosting runtime
Design choices and building blocks that made Tandem the choice
platform in high-availability environments for over two decades
Differences and similarities between object-oriented and functional
architectural views
How architectures can affect the software's evolution and the
developers' engagement

Beautiful Architecture brings you behind the scenes to learn what it
takes to design elegant software architecture, and how it can shape
the way you approach your own projects.

"The authors do a wonderful job in covering some of the fundamentals
and best practices of software architecture, and they do so while also
covering a wide spectrum of contemporary systems. I particularly
enjoyed the range of architectures they touch on, from Emacs to
Facebook, from higher ceremony systems to more ethereal ones.

"In short, this is a very timely and useful contribution to the art
and the science, and the practice of software and architecture."
– Grady Booch, Fellow, IBM

For more information on this topic, be sure to check out O'Reilly's
Web 2.0 Expo, taking place March 31 through April 3 in San Francisco.

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Georgios Gousios is a researcher by profession, a software engineer by
education and a software enthusiast by passion. Currently, he is
working on his PhD thesis at the Athens University of Economics and
Business, Greece. His research interests include virtual machines,
operating systems, software engineering and software quality.

Diomidis Spinellis is an Associate Professor in the Department of
Management Science and Technology at the Athens University of
Economics and Business, Greece. His research interests include
software engineering, programming languages, internet information
systems, computer security, and intelligent optimization methods.

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index, author bios, and cover graphic, see:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596517984

Beautiful Architecture
Diomidis Spinellis , Georgios Gousios
ISBN: 9780596517984, 416 pages, $44.99 USD, £31.99 GBP
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