February 27, 2009

97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know

The book is out!

97 Things Cover

• 40+ Contributing Authors including yours truly.

• 97 Useful Axioms for anyone with the slightest inclination for building sustainable systems.

• 2 Fellow Practitioners I admire: Gregor Hohpe & Bill de hÓra

• 1 Open Source Creative Commons License

• 1 Great Editor in Richard Monson-Haefel

It’s been a great team to be a part of. I am happy that my submission was chosen to be a part of the book. Having written two other books, I can safely say that no. 3 has been the most painless experience of the lot. I can appreciate the concept of a community driven book that’s rapidly formulated, well edited and published rapidly.

More importantly, the license allows others to extend and evolve the concept even further should they wish to. Lastly, the book should eventually get translated to German, Japanese, Mandarin, Russian & Spanish through O’Reilly’s global distribution network.

The book is no.1 for Software & Architecture on Amazon now:

#1 in  Books > Computers & Internet > Hardware > Design & Architecture

and more significantly:

#5 in  Books > Computers & Internet > Programming > Software Design, Testing & Engineering > Software Development

You can buy the book here:

http://www.amazon.com/Things-Every-Software-Architect-Should/dp/059652269X

And you can also get the content here if you wish to run through the wiki:

http://97-things.near-time.net/wiki/97-things-every-software-architect-should-know-the-book

John Davies was kind enough to get it plugged for us on TheServerSide.com!!!

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=53819

Cheers,

Zubin.