The Art of Systems Architecting

by Mark W. Maier, Eberhardt Rechtin

Today's architecting must handle systems of types unknown until very recently. New domains, including personal computers, intersatellite networks, health services, and joint service command and control are calling for new architectures-and for architects specializing in those domains. Since the original publication, of this bestselling text, these new and emerging fields have contributed architectural concepts and tools of their own to the relatively new formalism-and evolving profession-called Systems Architecting.brThe Art of Systems Architecting, Second Edition restates and extends into the future the classical architecting paradigm, incorporating the most broadly applicable of these contributions. It remains the most innovative, insightful treatment available to the discipline, providing both the academic and the industrial communities with the up-to-date tools, concepts, and techniques needed to conceive and build complex systems.

Genres: Engineering, Nonfiction, Computer Science, Technology, Reference, Architecture, Technical

344 pages, Hardcover

First published June 28, 2000

Reviews

[Nicolas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Très intéressant ouvrage sur l'architecture des systèmes. Il regroupe des visions technique et organisationnelles de ce que peuvent être différents systèmes, aussi bien dans le domaine aérospatial que dans le domaine informatique ou dans les domaines organisationnels. Une des valeurs essentielles de ce livre est d'apporter à un ensemble d'heuristiques qui démontrent bien que l'architecture se situe un niveau orthogonal de l'intérêt de l'ingénierie. En effet, l'ingénieur conçoit un système à partir de contraintes explicites, alors que l'architecte discute avec le client et les équipes en charge de la réalisation technique pour définir un compromis permettant d'exprimer ces contraintes qui nourriront l'ingénieur. C'est à mon avis une lecture indispensable surtout quand, comme moi, on vient du monde de l'ingénieur.

[George Scott · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not my favorite book on engineering. The chapters aren't really in harmony with each other. Heuristics, GPS, Political Processes of...?

[Alyssa · Rating 4 out of 5]

interesting and fairly easy to comprehend

[Joshua Napoli · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book is a great resource for defining, evaluating and comparing system architectures. Positive and negative case studies are boiled down into concise heuristics. The book develops a taxonomy of system architectures that allows useful comparison between systems. The book is lengthy and very "meta". It is a bit of a personal investment to get through it, but I think that its lessons are useful.

[Gwen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Don lent me this book so I could get an intro into a Systems Architecting Program he took. It was interesting but I expected something a little more substantial on the topic. (Probably more the fault of the discipline itself than the author's.)

[Dan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great and though provoking book on how to think about complex systems.