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Design and Architecture: Patterns and Practices

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Two things are clear about software. One is that the term architecture is often misunderstood, and the second is that every software system has an architecture. Many authors have written tomes of books on architecture, including what it means, how to do it, who should do it, when you should do it.

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Ritchie, P. (2016). Design and Architecture: Patterns and Practices. In: Practical Microsoft Visual Studio 2015. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2313-0_4

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