Large-Scale C++
John Debbie Lafferty
Writing reliable and maintainable C++ software is hard. Designing such software at scale adds a new set of challenges. Creating large-scale systems requires a practical understanding of logical design — beyond the theoretical concepts addressed in most popular texts. To be successful on an enterprise scale, developers must also address physical design, a dimension of software engineering that may be unfamiliar even to expert developers. Drawing on over 30 years of hands-on experience building massive, mission-critical enterprise systems, John Lakos shows how to create and grow Software Capital. This groundbreaking volume lays the foundation for projects of all sizes and ... Read more
- Raise productivity by leveraging differences between infrastructure and application development
- Achieve exponential productivity gains through feedback and hierarchical reuse
- Embrace the component’s role as the fundamental unit of both logical and physical design
- Analyze how fundamental properties of compiling and linking affect component design
- Discover effective partitioning of logical content in appropriately sized physical aggregates
- Internalize the important differences among sufficient, complete, minimal, and primitive software
- Deliver solutions that simultaneously optimize encapsulation, stability, and performance
- Exploit the nine established levelization techniques to avoid cyclic physical dependencies
- Use lateral designs judiciously to avoid the “heaviness” of conventional layered architectures
- Employ appropriate architectural insulation techniques for eliminating compile-time coupling
- Master the multidimensional process of designing large systems using component-based methods
This is the first of John Lakos’s three authoritative volumes on developing large-scale systems using C++. This book, written for fellow software practitioners, uses familiar C++ constructs to solve real-world problems while identifying (and motivating) modern C++ alternatives. Together with the forthcoming Volume II: Design and Implementation and Volume III: Verification and Testing, Large-Scale C++ offers comprehensive guidance for all aspects of large-scale C++ software development. If you are an architect or project leader, this book will empower you to solve critically important problems right now — and serve as your go-to reference for years to come.
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