Beautiful architecture
By: edited by Diomidis Spinellis and Georgios Gousios.
Contributors: Spinellis, Diomidis.; Gousios, Georgios.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: O'Reilly
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Sebastopol, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780596517984
Subjects: Computer software -- Development; Software engineering; Computer architecture; Software architecture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is architecture  -- by John Klein and David Weiss; title: A tale of two systems: a modern-day software fable  -- by Pete Goodliffe; title: Architecting for scale  -- by Jim Waldo; title: Making memories  -- by Michael Nygard; title: Resource-oriented architectures: being "in the web"  -- by Brian Sletten; title: Data grows up: the architecture of the Facebook platform  -- by Dave Fetterman; title: Xen and the beauty of virtualization  -- by Derek Murray and Keir Fraser; title: Guardian: a fault-tolerant operating system environment ; title: by Greg Lehey --; title: JPC: an X86 PC emulator in pure Java  -- by Rhys Newman and Christopher Dennis; title: The strength of metacircular virtual machines: JIKES RVM  -- by Ian Rogers and Dave Grove; title: GNU EMACS: creeping featurism is a strength  -- by Jim Blandy; title: When the bazaar sets out to build cathedrals  -- by Till Adam and Mirko Boehm; title: Software architecture: object-oriented versus functional  -- by Bertrand Meyer; title: Reading the classics -- by Panagiotis Louridas.