Book Collection for a Junior Architect

Design pattern books:

1.       C# 3.0 Design Patterns

2.       Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software:

3.       Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

This book is a must

4.       Microsoft .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise (Pro-Developer)

5.       Microsoft Application Architecture Guide (Patterns & Practices) (This one can be downloaded for free as PDF from msdn)

6.       Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions (This book is really good for specializing in middle tier aka services, queues etc)

7.       Core J2EE Patterns: Best Practices and Design Strategies (2nd Edition)

 

 

 

Domain Model Pattern (These books are dealing only with the DM pattern)

1. Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns: With Examples in C# and .NET

It has examples in C# 2.0 but the concept (DM) is still valid nowadays.

2.       Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

This is a classic although the book is a bit dense, see the examples. The book is narrated as a story when the author was developing an application for embedded electronic circuits.

 

Inversion of Control Pattern/IoC:

3.       Dependency Injection

Internet Architectures (Load balancing, redundancy, ways to scale out)

4. Scalable Internet Architectures

5. The Art of Scalability: Scalable Web Architecture, Processes, and Organizations for the Modern Enterprise

These two are “must have”references, specifically the UML one:

6.       UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language (3rd Edition)

7.       Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

And to translate from the Object Oriented World, Class Diagrams and UML notation to the Entity Relational World with Entity Relationship Diagrams:

8. Agile Database Techniques: Effective Strategies for the Agile Software Developer (Wiley Application Development)

9.       Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler))

Thanks to Srinivasa Tammana for asking me to put this list together. I own other titles but they are more detailed to a particular database technology or programming language and the books here are long time favorites.

Cheers
Lizet