Ian Gorton

Designing Distributed Architectures

Foundations of Scalable Systems

Judith A. Stafford

Clemens Szyperski

Ivica Crnkovic

Heinz W. Schmidt

Kurt Wallnau

George T. Heinemann

This is the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering, CBSE 2006, held in Västerås, Sweden in June/July 2006. The 22 revised full papers and 9 revised short papers presented cover issues concerned with the development of software-intensive systems from reusable parts, the development of reusable parts, and system maintenance and improvement by means of component replacement and customization.

9th International Symposium, CBSE 2006, Västeras, Sweden, June 29 - July 1, 2006, Proceedings

Component-Based Software Engineering

This book shows software professionals exactly how to build high-performance, high-integrity distributed Transaction Processing (TP) systems for e-commerce, and other business-critical applications. For each product, Gorton presents in-depth coverage of system architecture, TP monitor management environments, and programming models, and walks through a complete sample application illustrating both TP monitor features and relevant programming APIs.

Putting the CORBA OTS, Encina++ and OrbixOTM to Work

Enterprise Transaction Processing Systems

In many systems, scalability becomes the primary driver as the user base grows. Attractive features and high utility breed success, which brings more requests to handle and more data to manage. But organizations reach a tipping point when design decisions that made sense under light loads suddenly become technical debt. This practical book covers design approaches and technologies that make it possible to scale an application quickly and cost-effectively. Author Ian Gorton takes software architects and developers through the principles of foundational distributed systems. You'll explore the essential ingredients of scalable solutions, including replication, state management, load balancing, and caching. Specific chapters focus on the implications of scalability for databases, microservices, and event-based streaming systems. You will focus on: Foundations of scalable systems: Learn basic design principles of scalability, its costs, and architectural tradeoffs Designing scalable services: Dive into service design, caching, asynchronous messaging, serverless processing, and microservices Designing scalable data systems: Learn data system fundamentals, NoSQL databases, and eventual consistency versus strong consistency Designing scalable streaming systems: Explore stream processing systems and scalable event-driven processing

Essential Software Architecture

Job titles like “Technical Architect” and “Chief Architect” nowadays abound in software industry, yet many people suspect that “architecture” is one of the most overused and least understood terms in professional software development. Gorton’s book tries to resolve this dilemma. It concisely describes the essential elements of knowledge and key skills required to be a software architect. The explanations encompass the essentials of architecture thinking, practices, and supporting technologies. They range from a general understanding of structure and quality attributes through technical issues like middleware components and service-oriented architectures to recent technologies like model-driven architecture, software product lines, aspect-oriented design, and the Semantic Web, which will presumably influence future software systems. This second edition contains new material covering enterprise architecture, agile development, enterprise service bus technologies, RESTful Web services, and a case study on how to use the MeDICi integration framework. All approaches are illustrated by an ongoing real-world example. So if you work as an architect or senior designer (or want to someday), or if you are a student in software engineering, here is a valuable and yet approachable knowledge source for you.

Deborah K. Gracio

Describes principles of the emerging field of data-intensive computing, along with methods for designing, managing and analyzing the big data sets of today.

Ian Gorton

Books

Your next favorite book is out there