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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