Large-Scale C++: Process and Architecture, Volume 1

by John S. Lakos

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 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 Design and Implementation and Volume 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. Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.

Genres: Programming, Computer Science

1024 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 2, 2019

Reviews

[Mikhail Filatov · Rating 1 out of 5]

Frankly speaking, the author reminds me a Japanese soldier who has been hiding from US troops for 50 years after the end of WW2.
He knows that things has changed since 1996 (his previous book on mostly the same subject) but prefers to ignore these changes and dedicate hundreds of pages to description of the linking process, the way to organize .h and .cpp. He calls the structure of .h files "Architecture" and "Physical design".
Maybe of some use to build engineers working on large C++ projects, but even for them it would be more to see how the things were done before modern CI/CD tooling.