Fans of "Seinfeld" may recall that among George Costanza's many pathetic affectations was the occasional ploy that he was an architect. Actual architects, those who design buildings, would laugh at ...

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According to IEEE 1471, “A software architecture is the fundamental organization of a system embodied in its components, their relationship to each other and the environment, and the principles ...

Most embedded architects think of AI as a coding shortcut. But the real power isn’t in cranking out boilerplate code, it’s in transforming how we design systems. Imagine capturing key decisions in ...

In practical work, software architects must collaborate with people in many different positions and roles. They largely operate without authority, meaning they must rely more on communication and ...

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 ...