Essential Software Architecture

From the reviews of the second edition:

Choice - Oustanding Academic Title in 2012

“The volume is organized in three main parts, the first of which provides a comprehensive but clear definition of software architecture. The second and third parts are devoted to current and emerging practices, respectively. … This book will be of great help to students of computer science or software engineering, but above all it will provide practitioners with a guide to architecture that they can adopt to help direct their careers and professional development. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” (L. Benedicenti, Choice, Vol. 49 (5), January, 2012)

“A subset of the software system architecture discipline is discussed in this book. … Gorton begins with an overall description of what he calls ‘the subdiscipline known as software architecture.’ … useful in the technical library of a large financial institution for those engaged in major systems development and evolution.” (Mordechai Ben-Menachem, ACM Computing Reviews, January, 2012)