The Way of the great learning involves manifesting virtue, renovating the people, and abiding by the highest good.

2009年3月11日星期三

10 Papers Every Software Architect Should Read (At Least Twice)

Earlier today I read a post by Michael Feathers Called "10 Papers Every Developer Should Read (At  Least Twice). I knew some of the articles mentioned there and learnt about few interesting ones.I liked it so much,  I thought I'd compile a similar list for software architects - based on stuff I read over the years.

1. The Byzantine Generals Problem (1982) by Leslie Lamport, Robert Shostak and Marshall Pease - The problem with distributed consensus
2. Go To statements considered harmfull (1968) - by Edsger W. Dijkstra - Didn't you always want to know why ? :)
3. A Note on Distributed Computing (1994) - by Samuel C. Kendall, Jim Waldo, Ann Wollrath and Geoff Wyant - Also on Michael's list but it is one of the foundation papers on distributed computing
4. Big Ball of Mud (1999) - Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder - patterns or anti-patterns?
5. No Silver Bullet Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering (1987) - Frederick P. Brooks - On the limitations of Technology and Technological innovations.
6. The Open Closed Principle (1996) - Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) - The first in a series of articles on Object Oriented Principles (you remember the debate on SOLID...)
7. IEEE1471-2000 A recommended practice for architectural description of software intensive systems (2000) various- It is a standard and not a paper but it is the best foundation for describing a software architecture I know.
8. Harvest, Yield, and Scalable Tolerant Systems (1999) Armando Fox, Eric A. Brewer - That's where the CAP theorem was first defined
9. An Introduction to Software Architecture (1993) - David Garlan and Mary Shaw - one of the foundation articles of software architecture field (although based on earlier work by the two)
10. Who Needs an Architect? (2003) Martin Fowler - Do we or don't we?

I could come up with quite a few more articles not to mention books that aren't in this list. However these are definitely some of the most influential papers I read.

没有评论: