Beautiful Architecture. Leading Thinkers Reveal the Hidden Beauty in Software Design Diomidis Spinellis, Georgios Gousios

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• Beautiful Architecture
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  • Foreword
  • Preface
    • How This Book Is Organized
      • Part I: On Architecture
      • Part II: Enterprise Application Architecture
      • Part III: Systems Architecture
      • Part IV: End-User Application Architectures
      • Part V: Languages and Architecture
    • Principles, Properties, and Structures
    • Conventions Used in This Book
    • Using Code Examples
    • Safari Books Online
    • How to Contact Us
    • Acknowledgments
  • I. On Architecture
    • 1. What Is Architecture?
      • Introduction
        • The Role of Architect
        • The Role of the Software Architect
        • What Constitutes a Software Architecture?
        • Architecture Versus Design
      • Creating a Software Architecture
      • Architectural Structures
        • The Information Hiding Structures
        • The Uses Structures
        • The Process Structures
          • Process gives work to
          • Process gets resources from
          • Process shares resources with
          • Process contained in module
        • Access Structures
        • Summary of Structures
      • Good Architectures
      • Beautiful Architectures
      • Acknowledgments
      • References
    • 2. A Tale of Two Systems: A Modern-Day Software Fable
      • The Messy Metropolis
        • Down the Tubes
          • Incomprehensibility
          • Lack of cohesion
          • Unnecessary coupling
          • Code problems
          • Problems outside the code
          • Clear requirements
        • Where Is It Now?
        • A Postcard from the Metropolis
      • Design Town
        • First Steps into Design Town
        • The Story Unfolds
          • Locating functionality
          • Consistency
          • Growing the architecture
          • Deferring design decisions
          • Maintaining quality
          • Managing technical debt
          • Unit tests shape design
          • Time for design
          • Working with the design
        • Where Is It Now?
      • So What?
      • Your Turn
      • References
  • II. Enterprise Application Architecture
    • 3. Architecting for Scale
      • Introduction
      • Context
        • The First Goal
        • The Game World
        • Latency Is the Enemy
      • The Architecture
        • The Macro Structure
        • The Basic Services
        • Communication Services
        • Task Portability
      • Thoughts on the Architecture
        • Parallelism and Latency
        • Betting on the Future
        • Simplifying the Programmers Job
    • 4. Making Memories
      • Capabilities and Constraints
      • Workflow
      • Architecture Facets
        • Modules and Launcher
          • ApplicationContext
          • Module dependencies
          • Launcher
        • Kiosk-Style GUI
        • UI and UI Model
          • Forms
          • Properties
          • Bindings
          • Application facade
        • Interchangeable Workstations
          • Image repositories
          • NIO image transfer
          • Fast and robust
        • Database Migrations
          • Updates as objects
          • Regular exercise
          • Safety features
          • Field results
        • Immutable Data and Ubiquitous GUIDs
        • Render Farm
          • Conways Law, applied
          • DVD loading
          • Render pipeline
          • Fail fast
          • Scale out
      • User Response
      • Conclusion
      • References
    • 5. Resource-Oriented Architectures: Being In the Web
      • Introduction
      • Conventional Web Services
      • The Web
      • Resource-Oriented Architectures
      • Data-Driven Applications
      • Applied Resource-Oriented Architecture
      • Conclusion
    • 6. Data Grows Up: The Architecture of the Facebook Platform
      • Introduction
        • Some Application Core Data
        • Some Facebook Core Data
        • Facebooks Application Platform
      • Creating a Social Web Service
        • Data: Creating an XML Web Service
        • A Simple Web Service Authentication Handshake
      • Creating a Social Data Query Service
        • Method Call Batching
        • FQL
          • Architecture of FQL
      • Creating a Social Web Portal: FBML
        • Applications on Facebook: Directly Rendering HTML, CSS, and JS
        • Applications on Facebook: iframes
        • Applications on Facebook: FBML As Data-Driven Execution Markup
          • Direct HTML tags
          • Data-display tags
          • Data-execution tags
          • Design-only tags
          • Replacement HTML tags
          • Functionality package tags
          • FBML: A small example
        • FBML Architecture
          • Implementing direct HTML tags in FBML
          • Implementing data-display tags in FBML
          • Data-execution tags in FBML
          • Putting it all together
      • Supporting Functionality for the System
        • Platform Cookies
        • FBJS
        • Service Improvement Summary
      • Summation
  • III. Systems Architecture
    • 7. Xen and the Beauty of Virtualization
      • Introduction
      • Xenoservers
      • The Challenges of Virtualization
      • Paravirtualization
      • The Changing Shape of Xen
      • Changing Hardware, Changing Xen
      • Lessons Learned
        • Paravirtualization
        • Open Source Development
      • Further Reading
    • 8. Guardian: A Fault-Tolerant Operating System Environment
      • Tandem/16: Some Day All Computers Will Be Built Like This
      • Hardware
        • Diagnosis
        • Repair
      • Mechanical Layout
      • Processor Architecture
        • Memory Addressing
        • Procedure Calls
        • Action of the PCAL and SCAL Instructions
      • The Interprocessor Bus
      • Input/Output
      • Process Structure
        • Process Pairs
      • Message System
        • Process Pairs, Revisited
        • Synchronization
        • Networking: EXPAND and FOX
          • System names
          • FOX
      • File System
        • File Naming
        • Asynchronous I/O
        • Interprocess Communication
        • System Messages
        • Device I/O
        • Security
        • File Access Security
      • Folklore
      • The Downside
        • Performance
        • Hardware Limitations
        • Missed Opportunities
        • Split Brain
      • Posterity
      • Further Reading
    • 9. JPC: An x86 PC Emulator in Pure Java
      • Introduction
      • Proof of Concept
        • Potential Processor Performance Tests
      • The PC Architecture
      • Java Performance Tips
      • Four in Four: It Just Wont Go
      • The Perils of Protected Mode
      • Fighting A Losing Battle
        • Microcoding: Less Is More or More Is Less
      • Hijacking the JVM
        • Compiling: How to Reinvent the Wheel
          • Simple code generation
          • Handling exceptions
          • Bytecode manipulation
        • Class Loading and Unloading, but on a Big Scale
          • Codeblock replacement
      • Ultimate Flexibility
        • Flexible Data Anywhere
        • Flexible Auditing and Support
        • Flexible Computing Anywhere
      • Ultimate Security
      • It Feels Better the Second Time Around
    • 10. The Strength of Metacircular Virtual Machines: Jikes RVM
      • Background
      • Myths Surrounding Runtime Environments
        • As Runtime Compilers Must Be Fast, They Must Be Simple
        • Unlimited Analysis in a Static Compiler Must Mean Better Performance
        • Runtime Analysis Uses a Lot of Resources
        • Dynamic Class Loading Inhibits Performance
        • Garbage Collection Is Slower Than Explicit Memory Management
        • Summary
      • A Brief History of Jikes RVM
      • Bootstrapping a Self-Hosting Runtime
        • Object Layout
        • Runtime Memory Layout
        • Compiling the Primordials and Filling in the JTOC
        • The Boot Image Runner and VM.boot
      • Runtime Components
        • Basic Execution Model
        • Adaptive Optimization System
        • Optimizing Compilation
          • HIR
          • LIR
          • MIR
          • Factored control flow graph
          • Scalar and extended array SSA forms
          • Partial evaluation
          • On-stack replacement
          • Summary
        • Exception Model
        • Magic, Annotations, and Making Things Go Smoothly
        • Thread Model
        • Native Interface
        • Class Loaders and Reflection
        • Garbage Collection
          • Jikes RVM integration
          • Summary
      • Lessons Learned
      • References
  • IV. End-User Application Architectures
    • 11. GNU Emacs: Creeping Featurism Is a Strength
      • Emacs in Use
      • Emacss Architecture
        • The Model: Buffers
        • The View: Emacss Redisplay Engine
        • The Controller: Emacs Lisp
      • Creeping Featurism
        • Creeping Featurism and User Interface Complexity
          • How complex is the Model?
          • How complex is the command set?
        • Creeping Featurism and Maintainability
      • Two Other Architectures
        • Eclipse
        • Firefox
    • 12. When the Bazaar Sets Out to Build Cathedrals
      • Introduction
      • History and Structure of the KDE Project
      • Akonadi
        • Background
        • The Evolution of Akonadi
        • The Akonadi Architecture
        • The First Release and Beyond
      • ThreadWeaver
        • Introduction to ThreadWeaver: Or, How Complicated Can It Be to Load a File?
        • Core Concepts and Features
        • Declarative Concurrency: A Thumbnail Viewer Example
        • From Concurrency to Scheduling: How to Implement Expected Behavior Systematically
        • A Crazy Idea
  • V. Languages and Architecture
    • 13. Software Architecture: Object-Oriented Versus Functional
      • Overview
      • The Functional Examples
      • Assessing the Modularity of Functional Solutions
        • Extendibility Criteria
        • Assessing the Functional Approach
        • Levels of Modularity
        • The Functional Advantage
        • State Intervention
      • An Object-Oriented View
        • Combinators Are Good, Types Are Better
        • Using Software Contracts and Genericity
        • The Modularization Policy
        • Inheritance
        • Polymorphism, Polymorphic Containers, and Dynamic Binding
        • Deferred Classes and Features
      • Assessing and Improving OO Modularity
        • Reusing Operations
        • Extendibility: Adding Types
        • Extendibility: Adding Operations
      • Agents: Wrapping Operations into Objects
        • The Agent Mechanism
        • Scope of Agents
        • An Agent-Based Library to Make the Visitor Pattern Unnecessary
        • Assessment
      • Acknowledgments
      • References
    • 14. Rereading the Classics
      • Everything Is an Object
      • Types Are Defined Implicitly
      • Problems
      • Brick and Mortar Architecture
      • References
  • A. Afterword
  • B. Contributors
  • Index
  • About the Authors
  • Colophon
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