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Now Available: patterns & practices Application Architecture Book

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AAG2FrontCover-Small The Microsoft Application Architecture Guide, 2nd edition, is now available on Amazon and should be available on the shelf at your local bookstores soon.  The PDF was downloaded ~180,000 times.  This is the Microsoft platform playbook for application architecture.  You can think of it as a set of blueprints, and as your personal mentor for building common types of applications on the Microsoft platform:  mobile, RIA, services, and Web applications.

The backbone of the guide is an information model for the application architecture space.  It’s a durable and evolvable map to give you a firm foundation of principles, patterns, and practices that you can overlay the latest technologies.  It’s your “tome of know-how.”  While it’s not a step-by-step for building specific applications, it is a pragmatic guide for designing your architecture, with quality attributes, key software principles, common patterns, and architectural styles in mind.  It’s holistic and focused on the key engineering decisions where you face your highest risks and most important choices.

Key Features of the Book
The book has several compelling features for slicing and dicing the application architecture body of knowledge:    

  • Canonical Frame.   Thisdescribes at a meta-level, the tiers and layers that an architect should consider. Each tier/layer will be described in terms of its focus, function, capabilities, common design patterns and technologies.
  • Application Types.  These are canonical application archetypes to illustrate common application types: Mobile, Rich Client, RIA, Services, and Web applications.  Each archetype is described in terms of the target scenarios, technologies, patterns and infrastructure it contains. Each archetype is mapped to the canonical app frame. They are illustrative of common application types and not comprehensive or definitive.
  • Quality attributes.  This is a set of qualities and capabilities that shape your application architecture: performance, security, scalability, manageability, deployment, communication, etc.
  • Cross-cutting concerns.  This is a common set of categories for hot spots for key engineering decisions: Authentication, Authorization, Caching, Communication, Configuration Management, Exception Management, Logging and Instrumentation, State Management, and Validation.
  • Step-by-Step Design Approach.
  • Principles, patterns, and practices.   Using the application types, canonical frame, and cross-cutting concerns as backdrops, the guide provides an overlay of relevant principles, patterns, and practices.
  • Technologies and capabilities.  The guide provides an overview and description of the Microsoft custom application development platform and the main technologies and capabilities within it.

Contents at a Glance
The full Microsoft Application Architecture Guide is available for free on MSDN in HTML.  This is the contents of the guide at a glance:

Chapters

Appendices

The Team
Here is the team that brought you the guide:

  • Core Dev Team: J.D. Meier, Alex Homer, David Hill, Jason Taylor, Prashant Bansode, Lonnie Wall, Rob Boucher Jr, Akshay Bogawat
  • Test Team - Rohit Sharma, Praveen Rangarajan, Kashinath TR, Vijaya Jankiraman
  • Edit Team - Dennis Rea
  • External Contributors/Reviewers - Adwait Ullal; Andy Eunson; Brian Sletten; Christian Weyer; David Guimbellot; David Ing; David Weller; Derek Greer; Eduardo Jezierski; Evan Hoff; Gajapathi Kannan; Jeremy D. Miller; John Kordyback; Keith Pleas; Kent Corley; Mark Baker; Paul Ballard; Peter Oehlert; Norman Headlam; Ryan Plant; Sam Gentile; Sidney G Pinney; Ted Neward; Udi Dahan
  • Microsoft Contributors / Reviewers - Ade Miller; Amit Chopra; Anna Liu; Anoop Gupta; Bob Brumfield; Brad Abrams; Brian Cawelti; Bhushan Nene; Burley Kawasaki; Carl Perry; Chris Keyser; Chris Tavares; Clint Edmonson; Dan Reagan; David Hill; Denny Dayton; Diego Dagum; Dmitri Martynov; Dmitri Ossipov; Don Smith; Dragos Manolescu; Elisa Flasko; Eric Fleck; Erwin van der Valk; Faisal Mohamood; Francis Cheung; Gary Lewis; Glenn Block; Gregory Leake; Ian Ellison-Taylor; Ilia Fortunov; J.R. Arredondo; John deVadoss; Joseph Hofstader; Koby Avital; Loke Uei Tan; Luke Nyswonger; Manish Prabhu; Meghan Perez; Mehran Nikoo; Michael Puleio; Mike Francis; Mike Walker; Mubarak Elamin; Nick Malik; Nobuyuki Akama; Ofer Ashkenazi; Pablo Castro; Pat Helland; Phil Haack; Rabi Satter; Reed Robison; Rob Tiffany; Ryno Rijnsburger; Scott Hanselman; Seema Ramchandani; Serena Yeoh; Simon Calvert; Srinath Vasireddy; Tom Hollander; Wojtek Kozaczynski

Application Architecture Knowledge Base
The guide was developed in conjunction with our Application Architecture Guide v2.0 Knowledge Base Project. The knowledge base project was used to inform and steer the guide during its development. The Application Architecture Knowledge Base includes a large amount of material that expands on specific topics in the main guide. It also includes draft material from the main guide that is targeted and packaged for more specific audiences, such as the Pocket Guide series.

Key Links at a Glance
Here are the key links at a glance:

Comments

  • Anonymous
    November 05, 2009
    you mentioned a PDF version of this resource. Where can it be purchased/obtained. Thanks

  • Anonymous
    November 05, 2009
    You can download the content complete draft from http://www.codeplex.com/AppArchGuide/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=20586 .

  • Anonymous
    November 05, 2009
    The download is available at: http://www.codeplex.com/AppArchGuide

  • Anonymous
    November 05, 2009
    Sorry J. D. Posted almost in same time! Anyway, why is the copyright set to 2008 ?

  • Anonymous
    November 05, 2009
    @ Mohammed No prob.  Good catch ... it should be 2009.

  • Anonymous
    November 05, 2009
    ya but... how about a pdf of the actual final rather than just the draft? or are you saying nothing has changed since Jan 19?

  • Anonymous
    November 05, 2009
    @ Sean The PDF was frozen before the book process, so there are some deltas, primarily formatting (what works for the Web, doesn't always work for print.)

  • Anonymous
    November 05, 2009
    ahhh... gotcha. thanks much, J.D.

  • Anonymous
    November 05, 2009
    I'm guessing you meant tome instead of tomb? At least, I really hope so. :)

  • Anonymous
    November 05, 2009
    Is the codeplex provided pdf the most recent ?( since it contains "only" 21 chapters while the MSDN version has 28, also chapter names differ too) Is it possible to get the pdf for the current version of what is on MSDN?

  • Anonymous
    November 06, 2009
    @ SuggestionBoxBob :) @ Zsolt Yes, it's the last PDF before we forked for the book process.  I'm glad there's demand for PDF.  I'll explore doing another PDF build with the team.

  • Anonymous
    November 07, 2009
    The comment has been removed