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  • 15 Nov

    Updated Templates and Quick Reference Card

    by nick | published under Book | Comment on this post ››

    Eoin and I have updated the AD template and Quick Reference Card to reflect the changes we made for Edition 2.

    If you’ve downloaded any of these documents recently, please download them again to get the revised versions. All comments welcome!

  • 08 Nov

    Big Data

    by nick | published under Architecture | Comment on this post ››

    Eoin ran a session for IASA UK chapter in London with Chris Cooper-Bland and Paul Cavanagh on 7 November.

    The subject was ‘”Big Data” when the size of the problem is the size of the data itself.’

    You can find more information here.

  • 01 Nov

    Welcome to our New Website

    by admin | published under Miscellaneous | Comment on this post ››

    Welcome to the new website for Edition 2 of Software Systems Architecture!

    Edition 2 was published in November 2011 and is a major revision of the original book. We have updated most of the chapters and added over 130 pages of additional content. The most important changes in this edition are as follows.

    • We have introduced a new viewpoint, which we call the Context viewpoint. This describes the relationships, dependencies, and interactions between the system and its environment (the people, systems, and external entities with which it interacts). It extends, formalizes, and standardizes the relatively brief discussion of scope and context that used to be in Chapter 8.

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