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Designing scalable software in C++ requires more than just a sound understanding of the logical design issues covered in most C++ programming books. To succeed, senior developers, architects, and project leaders need a grasp of high-level physical design concepts with which even expert software developers have little or no experience. This concise, approachable guide takes a practitioner's view of large-scale software development, while providing all the information you need to quickly apply architectural-level physical design concepts in your everyday work. All content is presented in self-contained modules that make it easy to find what you need -- and use it. John Lakos presents crucial new material on runtime dependencies and other architectural issues, as well as realistic small examples that add value by illuminating broad and deep issues in large-scale C++ application design.
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Designing scalable software in C++ requires more than just a sound understanding of logical design. Senior developers, architects, and project leaders need a grasp of high-level physical design concepts that even many software experts have never explored. In Large-Scale C++, Volume I: Process and Architecture, John Lakos takes a practitioner's view of modern large-scale software development, helping experienced professionals apply architectural-level physical design concepts in their everyday work. Lakos teaches critical concepts clearly and concisely, with new high-value examples. Up to date and modular, Large-Scale C++, Volume I, is designed to help you solve problems right now, and serve as an indispensable reference for years to come.
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Writing reliable and maintainable C++ software is hard. Designing such software at scale adds a new set of challenges. Creating large-scale systems requires a practical understanding of logical design -- beyond the theoretical concepts addressed in most popular texts. To be successful on an enterprise scale, developers must also address physical design, a dimension of software engineering that may be unfamiliar even to expert developers. Drawing on over 30 years of hands-on experience building massive, mission-critical enterprise systems, John Lakos shows how to create and grow Software Capital. This groundbreaking volume lays the foundation for projects of all sizes and demonstrates the processes, methods, techniques, and tools needed for successful real-world, large-scale development.
Up to date and with a solid engineering focus, Large-Scale C++, Volume I: Process and Architecture, demonstrates fundamental design concepts with concrete examples. Professional developers of all experience levels will gain insights that transform their approach to design and development by understanding how to
- Raise productivity by leveraging differences between infrastructure and application development
- Achieve exponential productivity gains through feedback and hierarchical reuse
- Embrace the component's role as the fundamental unit of both logical and physical design
- Analyze how fundamental properties of compiling and linking affect component design
- Discover effective partitioning of logical content in appropriately sized physical aggregates
- Internalize the important differences among sufficient, complete, minimal, and primitive software
- Deliver solutions that simultaneously optimize encapsulation, stability, and performance
- Exploit the nine established levelization techniques to avoid cyclic physical dependencies
- Use lateral designs judiciously to avoid the "heaviness" of conventional layered architectures
- Employ appropriate architectural insulation techniques for eliminating compile-time coupling
- Master the multidimensional process of designing large systems using component-based methods
This is the first of John Lakos's three authoritative volumes on developing large-scale systems using C++. This book, written for fellow software practitioners, uses familiar C++ constructs to solve real-world problems while identifying (and motivating) modern C++ alternatives. Together with the forthcoming
Volume II: Design and Implementation and
Volume III: Verification and Testing,
Large-Scale C++ offers comprehensive guidance for all aspects of large-scale C++ software development. If you are an architect or project leader, this book will empower you to solve critically important problems right now -- and serve as your go-to reference for years to come.
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