September this year is dedicated to reviewing software architecture books. This time, I’ve read Building Evolutionary Architectures written by Neal Ford. I appreciate the effort put into compiling this book. However, I found it to be more of a collection of existing books, articles and talks rather than offering new, original insights.
Below is my brief summary of the book:
- Rapid Business Evolution: The pace of business change is accelerating, necessitating that software systems keep up. Proper architecture is crucial for enabling software evolution.
- Embracing Incremental Changes: Software engineers can’t predict unknown unknowns. By embracing incremental changes to test hypotheses, similar to evolutionary processes, failed experiments are discarded while successful ones are retained.
- Short Release Cycles: Release cycles must be short. There is no time for manual, repetitive tasks; therefore, everything must be automated.
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