The software development industry is either taking giant leaps ahead or in deep turmoil. On the one hand, we're pushing forward, reinventing the way that we build software and striving for ...

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The last three articles have explored the five steps to designing an embedded software architecture. So far, we’ve separated our software architecture into hardware-dependent and independent ...

Microservices break up monolithic code into discrete chunks that are easier to maintain. Here's an overview and a look at the pros and cons of migrating to a microservices architecture. Nearly every ...

Apparently, software architecture is only about structuring software and implementing non-functional requirements. But in reality, software is for people and people write software. Therefore, it is ...

Did you know that there are some common mistakes that people make when it comes to software architecture? In this article, we will take a look at eight of the most common ones so that you can avoid ...

Real-time operating systems (RTOSs) are finding their way into nearly every IoT device. The capability of an RTOS to manage low-level resources and complex timing requirements make them well suited ...

Since we began working on the first book in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series in the mid-nineties, the discussion about what software architecture specifically entails has repeatedly ...

Over the past few years, I’ve spent a large amount of my time consulting with and training software development teams that were in the midst of rearchitecture. These teams had already developed the ...