If you are starting your journey as a software architect, getting to know the fundamentals of software architecture as per industry standard (IEEE 42010) is the first step. This slide deck is an effort to unpack the IEEE definition of Software Architecture & provide the guidance and recommendation to make your journey easier. Refer to post on Logical Architecture & Physical Architecture for further details on creating effective architectural artifacts.…
Standards and Guidelines for Software Architecture
As a software architect, it is important to understand available industry standards to increase your breadth of knowledge and apply the best practices available. #1 – IEEE 42010 Systems and software engineering #2 – SEI ATAM: Method for Architecture Evaluation SEI (Software Engineering Institute) is an American research and development center by Carnegie Mellon university. While SEI program of work is conducted in several principal areas, their contribution to software…
5 Steps for AWS Solutions Architect Associate Certification
AWS has launched new version of AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate SAA-C02) in March 2020 and based on my journey of getting certified, would like to share my experience to make you successful. Here are 5 steps for AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification you can follow to make sure your journey also results in success: Step 1 – Complete an online course to cover broader AWS services Below mentioned…
5 Tips On Creating Effective Physical/Deployment Architecture For Cloud
References Archimate Specification – htthttps://www.opengroup.org/archimate-home Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (SEBoK) – https://www.sebokwiki.org/ AWS Icons – https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/icons/ Draw.io for Diagrams – https://app.diagrams.net/
5 Tips for Creating Effective Logical Architecture
A logical architecture helps to visualize and communicate the application’s logical & functional components and depicts future state of the architecture meeting business requirements. A software architect often comes up with a logical architecture as an artifact during the architecture definition phase, which gets documented as part of software architecture document. At a later stage, logical architecture becomes an input to create physical architecture and also serves the following purpose:…
Journey from a software developer to a software architect
As a developer, there are many coding challenges and you solve them by applying many techniques such as refactoring, multi-threading, optimization for performance, transaction management, coding rules compliance etc. Each developer would aspire to become an architect in due course & find the path to be very challenging at times. Some people get guidance from their mentors & few learn it through training/certification, reading, social media, blogs etc. We define AJP…