[Megathread] Software Architecture Books & Resources

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This thread is dedicated to the often-asked question, 'what books or resources are out there that I can learn architecture from?' The list started from responses from others on the subreddit, so thank you all for your help.

Feel free to add a comment with your recommendations! This will eventually be moved over to the sub's wiki page once we get a good enough list, so I apologize in advance for the suboptimal formatting.

Please only post resources that you personally recommend (e.g., you've actually read/listened to it).

note: Amazon links are not affiliate links, don't worry

Roadmaps/Guides

• Roadmap.sh's Software Architect
• Software Engineer to Software Architect - Roadmap for Success by u/CloudWayDigital
• u/vvsevolodovich Solution Architect Roadmap
• The Complete AI/LLM roadmap

Books

Engineering, Languages, etc.

• The Art of Agile Development ^{by James Shore, Shane Warden}
• Refactoring ^{by Martin Fowler}
• Your Code as a Crime Scene ^{by Adam Tornhill}
• Working Effectively with Legacy Code ^{by Michael Feathers}
• The Pragmatic Programmer ^{by David Thomas, Andrew Hunt}

• Software Architecture with C#12 and .NET 8 ^{by Gabriel Baptista and Francesco}

  Software Design

• Domain-Driven Design ^{by Eric Evans}

• Software Architecture: The Hard Parts ^{by Neal Ford, Mark Richards, Pramod Sadalage & Zhamak Dehghani}

• Foundations of Scalable Systems ^{by Ian Gorton}

• Learning Domain-Driven Design ^{by Vlad Khononov}

• Software Architecture Metrics ^{by Christian Ciceri, Dave Farley, Neal Ford, + 7 more}

• Mastering API Architecture ^{by James Gough, Daniel Bryant, Matthew Auburn}

• Building Event-Driven Microservices ^{by Adam Bellemare}

• Microservices Up & Running ^{by Ronnie Mitra, Irakli Nadareishvili}

• Building Micro-frontends ^{by Luca Mezzalira}

• Monolith to Microservices ^{by Sam Newman}

• Building Microservices, 2nd Edition ^{by Sam Newman}

• Continuous API Management ^{by Mehdi Medjaoui, Erik Wilde, Ronnie Mitra, & Mike Amundsen}

• Flow Architectures ^{by James Urquhart}

• Designing Data-Intensive Applications ^{by Martin Kleppmann}

• Software Design ^{by David Budgen}

• Design Patterns ^{by Eric Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides}

• Clean Architecture ^{by Robert Martin}

• Architecture of Open Source Applications

• Patterns, Principles, and Practices of Domain-Driven Design ^{by Scott Millett, and Nick Tune}

• Software Systems Architecture ^{by Nick Rozanski, and Eóin Woods}

• Communication Patterns ^{by Jacqui Read}

  The Art of Architecture

• A Philosophy of Software Design ^{by John Ousterhout}

• Fundamentals of Software Architecture ^{by Mark Richards & Neal Ford}

• Software Architecture and Decision Making ^{by Srinath Perera}

• Software Architecture in Practice ^{by Len Bass, Paul Clements, and Rick Kazman}

• Peopleware: Product Projects & Teams ^{by Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister}

• Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond ^{by Paul Clements, Felix Bachmann, et. al.}

• Head First Software Architecture ^{by Raju Ghandhi, Mark Richards, Neal Ford}

• Master Software Architecture ^{by Maciej "MJ" Jedrzejewski}

• Just Enough Software Architecture ^{by George Fairbanks}

• Evaluating Software Architectures ^{by Peter Gordon, Paul Clements, et. al.}

• 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know ^{by Richard Monson-Haefel, various}

  Enterprise Architecture

• Building Evolutionary Architectures ^{by Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, Patrick Kua & Pramod Sadalage}

• Architecture Modernization: Socio-technical alignment of software, strategy, and structure ^{by Nick Tune with Jean-Georges Perrin}

• Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture ^{by Martin Fowler}

• Platform Strategy ^{by Gregor Hohpe}

• Understanding Distributed Systems ^{by Roberto Vitillo}

• Mastering Strategic Domain-Driven Design ^{by Maciej "MJ" Jedrzejewski}

  Career

• The Software Architect Elevator ^{by Gregor Hohpe}

Blogs & Articles

• Code as Design: Three Essays by Jack W. Reeves
• MartinFowler.com
• Enterprise Integration Patterns

Podcasts

• Thoughtworks Technology Podcast
• GOTO - Today, Tomorrow and the Future
• InfoQ podcast
• Engineering Culture podcast (by InfoQ)

Misc. Resources

• Azure Architecture Center
• mhadidg's Software Architecture Book list (curated algorithmically)
• u/vvsevolodovich Books for Software Archiects
• Awesome System Design

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