The Best Software Architecture Books of All Time

Becoming an expert — one book at a time

Thilina Ashen Gamage
4 min readDec 22, 2020

Software Architects are primarily responsible for maintaining the conceptual integrity of a software system. In order to become one of them, you need both theoretical and practical exposure to technology and business domains. With this curated list of all-time best Software Architecture books, you will be able to significantly speed up your learning process.

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#1 — Get your hands dirty with some clean coding

#2 — Build state-of-the-art system designs

#3 — Understand the software building culture & delivery processes

Some Advice on Books, Patterns, and Experts

  • Don’t reinvent the wheel — The great engineers in the past (maybe with very old technology), might have solved the hardest challenges that your software team face today. Therefore, before reinventing the wheel, learn from similar things in the past. That is the whole idea of using these Software Architecture books.
  • Learn as you go, slowly and consciously — You don’t have to spend sleepless nights to finish reading the entire book collection in one go. But having access to them will definitely help (maybe have a small library at your…

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