Software Architecture Metrics: Case Studies to Improve the Quality of Your Architecture

Software architecture metrics are key to the maintainability and architectural quality of a software project and they can warn you about dangerous accumulations of architectural and technical debt early in the process. In this practical book, leading hands-on software architects share case studies to introduce metrics that every software architect should know.

This isn't a book about theory. It's more about practice and implementation, about what has already been tried and worked. Detecting software architectural issues early is crucial for the success of your software: it helps mitigate the risk of poor performance and lowers the cost of repairing those issues. Written by practitioners for software architects and software developers eager to explore successful case studies, this guide will help you learn more about decision and measurement effectiveness.

Through contributions from 10 prominent practitioners, this book shares key software architecture metrics to help you set the right KPIs and measure the results. You'll learn how to:

• Measure how well your software architecture is meeting your goals
• Choose the right metrics to track (and skip the ones you don't need)
• Improve observability, testability, and deployability
• Prioritize software architecture projects
• Build insightful and relevant dashboards

Christian Ciceri is a Software Architect & co-founder at Apiumhub - software development company known for software architecture excellence. Also, he is head of Software Architecture in VYou app - customer identity and access management solution and head of moderators in Global Software Architecture Summit. He began his professional career with a specific interest in Object Oriented design issues, with deep studies in code-level and architectural-level design patterns and techniques.

Dave Farley is a thought-leader in the field of Continuous Delivery, DevOps and Software Development in general. He is co-author of the Jolt-award winning book 'Continuous Delivery', a regular conference speaker and blogger and one of the authors of the Reactive Manifesto.

Neal Ford is a director, software architect, and meme wrangler at Thoughtworks, a software company and a community of passionate, purpose-led individuals who think disruptively to deliver technology to address the toughest challenges, all while seeking to revolutionize the IT industry and create positive social change. He’s an internationally recognized expert on software development and delivery, especially in the intersection of Agile engineering techniques and software architecture. Neal’s authored nine books (and counting), a number of magazine articles, and dozens of video presentations (including a video on improving technical presentations) and spoken at hundreds of developer conferences worldwide. His topics of interest include software architecture, continuous delivery, functional programming, and cutting-edge software innovations. Check out his website, Nealford.com.

Andrew Harmel-Law is a highly enthusiastic, self-starting and responsible tech principal at Thoughtworks. Andrew specializes in Java and JVM technologies, agile delivery, build tools and automation, and domain-driven design. Experienced across the software development life cycle and in many sectors including government, banking, and ecommerce, what motivates him is the production of large-scale software solutions, fulfilling complex client requirements.

Michael Keeling is an experienced software architect, agile practitioner, and programmer. He has worked on a variety of software systems including combat systems, search applications, web apps, and IBM Watson. When not doing software stuff, Michael enjoys hiking, running, cooking, and camping.