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    Preface
    Ch. 1. Don't Put Your Resume Ahead of the Requirements
    Ch. 2. Simplify Essential Complexity; Diminish Accidental Complexity
    Ch. 3. Chances Are, Your Biggest Problem Isn't Technical
    Ch. 4. Communication Is King; Clarity and Leadership, Its Humble Servants
    Ch. 5. Application Architecture Determines Application Performance
    Ch. 6. Seek the Value in Requested Capabilities
    Ch. 7. Stand Up!
    Ch. 8. Everything Will Ultimately Fail
    Ch. 9. You're Negotiating More Often Than You Think
    Ch. 10. Quantify
    Ch. 11. One Line of Working Code Is Worth 500 of Specification
    Ch. 12. There Is No One-Size-Fits-All Solution
    Ch. 13. It's Never Too Early to Think About Performance
    Ch. 14. Architecting Is About Balancing
    Ch. 15. Commit-and-Run Is a Crime
    Ch. 16. There Can Be More Than One
    Ch. 17. Business Drives
    Ch. 18. Simplicity Before Generality, Use Before Reuse
    Ch. 19. Architects Must Be Hands On
    Ch. 20. Continuously Integrate
    Ch. 21. Avoid Scheduling Failures
    Ch. 22. Architectural Tradeoffs
    Ch. 23. Database As a Fortress
    Ch. 24. Use Uncertainty As a Driver
    Ch. 25. Warning: Problems in Mirror May Be Larger Than They Appear
    Ch. 26. Reuse Is About People and Education, Not Just Architecture
    Ch. 27. There Is No 'I' in Architecture
    Ch. 28. Get the 1,000-Foot View
    Ch. 29. Try Before Choosing
    Ch. 30. Understand the Business Domain
    Ch. 31. Programming Is an Act of Design
    Ch. 32. Give Developers Autonomy
    Ch. 33. Time Changes Everything
    Ch. 34. "Software Architect" Has Only Lowercase a's; Deal with It
    Ch. 35. Scope Is the Enemy of Success
    Ch. 36. Value Stewardship Over Showmanship
    Ch. 37. Software Architecture Has Ethical Consequences
    Ch. 38. Skyscrapers Aren't Scalable
    Ch. 39. Heterogeneity Wins
    Ch. 40. It's All About Performance
    Ch. 41. Engineer in the White Spaces
    Ch. 42. Talk the Talk
    Ch. 43. Context Is King
    Ch. 44. Dwarves, Elves, Wizards, and Kings
    Ch. 45. Learn from Architects of Buildings
    Ch. 46. Fight Repetition
    Ch. 47. Welcome to the Real World
    Ch. 48. Don't Control, but Observe
    Ch. 49. Janus the Architect
    Ch. 50. Architects' Focus Is on the Boundaries and Interfaces
    Ch. 51. Empower Developers
    Ch. 52. Record Your Rationale
    Ch. 53. Challenge Assumptions—Especially Your Own
    Ch. 54. Share Your Knowledge and Experiences
    Ch. 55. Pattern Pathology
    Ch. 56. Don't Stretch the Architecture Metaphors
    Ch. 57. Focus on Application Support and Maintenance
    Ch. 58. Prepare to Pick Two
    Ch. 59. Prefer Principles, Axioms, and Analogies to Opinion and Taste
    Ch. 60. Start with a Walking Skeleton
    Ch. 61. It Is All About The Data
    Ch. 62. Make Sure the Simple Stuff Is Simple
    Ch. 63. Before Anything, an Architect Is a Developer
    Ch. 64. The ROI Variable
    Ch. 65. Your System Is Legacy; Design for It
    Ch. 66. If There Is Only One Solution, Get a Second Opinion
    Ch. 67. Understand the Impact of Change
    Ch. 68. You Have to Understand Hardware, Too
    Ch. 69. Shortcuts Now Are Paid Back with Interest Later
    Ch. 70. "Perfect" Is the Enemy of "Good Enough"
    Ch. 71. Avoid "Good Ideas"
    Ch. 72. Great Content Creates Great Systems
    Ch. 73. The Business Versus the Angry Architect
    Ch. 74. Stretch Key Dimensions to See What Breaks
    Ch. 75. If You Design It, You Should Be Able to Code It
    Ch. 76. A Rose by Any Other Name Will End Up As a Cabbage
    Ch. 77. Stable Problems Get High-Quality Solutions
    Ch. 78. It Takes Diligence
    Ch. 79. Take Responsibility for Your Decisions
    Ch. 80. Don't Be Clever
    Ch. 81. Choose Your Weapons Carefully, Relinquish Them Reluctantly
    Ch. 82. Your Customer Is Not Your Customer
    Ch. 83. It Will Never Look Like That
    Ch. 84. Choose Frameworks That Play Well with Others
    Ch. 85. Make a Strong Business Case
    Ch. 86. Control the Data, Not Just the Code
    Ch. 87. Pay Down Your Technical Debt
    Ch. 88. Don't Be a Problem Solver
    Ch. 89. Build Systems to Be Zuhanden
    Ch. 90. Find and Retain Passionate Problem Solvers
    Ch. 91. Software Doesn't Really Exist
    Ch. 92. Learn a New Language
    Ch. 93. You Can't Future-Proof Solutions
    Ch. 94. The User Acceptance Problem
    Ch. 95. The Importance of Consommé
    Ch. 96. For the End User, the Interface Is the System
    Ch. 97. Great Software Is Not Built, It Is Grown
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    Chapter 53. Challenge Assumptions—Especially Your Own

    Chapter 53. Challenge Assumptions—Especially Your Own

    Timothy High is a software architect with more than 15 years' experience with web, multitiered client-server, and application-integration technologies. He is currently working as a software architect for Sakonnet Technologies, a leader in Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM) software.

    —Timothy High




      

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