The Essentials

Inspiration

• There's a few key names of people that have inspired me in this domain.

Enterprise

Scott Bernard An Introduction to Enterprise Architecture

Jeanne Ross Enterprise Architecture As Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution

Svyatoslav Kotusev The Practice of Enterprise Architecture: A Modern Approach to Business and IT Alignment

Gregor Hohpe

• Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions

• The Software Architect Elevator: Redefining the Architect's Role in the Digital Enterprise

• Cloud Strategy

• Platform Strategy

• Data Strategy

• Blog site: https://architectelevator.com/

George Fairbanks

• Just Enough Software Architecture

Eben Hewitt

• Technology Strategy Patterns: Analyzing and Communicating Architectural Decisions

Solution

Neal Ford, Mark Richards

• Fundamentals of Software Architecture

• Software Architecture The Hard Parts

Evolutary Architecture

• Neal Ford, Rebecca Parsons, Patrick Kua Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change

Saurabh Shrivastava Solutions Architect's Handbook: Kick-start your solutions architect career by learning architecture design principles and strategies

Alan McSweeney Introduction to Solution Architecture

Real World Architecture

• Stewart Brand How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built

• Liliane Wong Adaptive Reuse: Extending the Lives of Buildings

• Christopher Alexander A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

Visualization

Simon Brown:

• C4 Model

Distributed Architecture

Martin Kleppmann

• Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems