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About the Book
This practical guide shows how you can effectively apply the practical and well-proven arc42 template to design, develop and document your software architecture. It contains more than 200 concrete and pragmatical tips how to improve your architecture communication and documentation:
- immediately actionable tips
- arc42 for practical software development
- effective communication and documentation of software architectures
- arc42 to construct, design and implement new systems
- arc42 to document existing system
- arc42 for { large | medium | small } systems
- tools for arc42: wikis, asciidoc, modeling tools an others
- frequently asked questions around arc42
About the Authors
Gernot Starke (innoQ Fellow) is a long-term traveller in IT-country and has been consulting mid- to large enterprises on methodical software engineering, -development and -architecture. He authored several books on software architecture, patterns and etiquette of software development. He received a PhD in computer science from J.Kepler University in Linz in 1995.
Gernot co-founded arc42 way back in 2005 and has since then applied it successfully on several IT-systems in finance, logistics, telecommunications, automotive and the public sector.
He is founder and committer of the architecture improvement method (aim42.org), the systematic approach to software modernization and evolution. Back in 2009, Gernot co-founded the International Software Architecture Qualification Board (iSAQB e.V.), a non-profit organization for the advancement of software architecture education and training.
In some former life he worked as technical director for the Object Reality Center Cologne (ORC), a venture of Sun Microsytems Inc.
Gernot lives in Cologne, Germany with his wife and two kids.
Peter Hruschka (Principal of the Atlantic Systems Guild) is an avid advocat for pragmatic software engineering techniques. As trainer, consultant and book author he is working since more than 40 years with large and small IT-companies all over the world, often on embedded real-time systems in the automotive, medical or telecom industry as well as data warehouse projects in banking and manufacturing.
He received a PhD in computer science from Technical University of Vienna. Peter co-founded arc42, the home of the architecture template, as well as the International Software Architecture Qualification Board (iSAQB e.V.), both non-profit organizations for software architecture and training.
In his former life Peter developed and marketed modeling tools, supporting more than 10000 licensees on all continents.
Peter and his wife live in Aachen, Germany. When they are not working they can be found in beautiful spots trying to hit small white balls into holes that are far away.