Some of the earliest decisions come from designing the architecture, and these carry a high degree of importance because they affect the decisions that come after it.
Software architecture is a series of decisions. As such, it holds a great deal of importance in terms of the successful development, and eventual maintenance, of the system. Like other types of engineering, the foundation has a profound effect on the quality of what is built on top of it. Software architecture is the foundation of a software system. Why should we care about software architecture anyway? Sometimes a developer just wants to jump right in and start coding. I have taken excerpt as below from the first chapter of the book to motivate you to take the next step to know and learn about why software architecture is so important. As always, book reading is one such habit that will elevate curious learners from an ordinary to an extraordinary category :) If you aspire to be a software architect, I must say that please borrow some hours from your busy life and read this excellent book :). Last year in 2019, I finished reading book named Software Architect's Handbook by Joseph Ingeno published by Packt Publishing in 2018. If you aspire to be a software architect then it is critical to fundamentally understand on why is software architecture important? Trust me software architect role is the most satisfying role as the positive work that you do as a software architect directly improves product company topline. And one role that will always thrive, highly respected, and highly paid in the digital age is a role of software architect. One has to start thinking and operating like a digital company.
Humphrey said that " Every business is a software business". Do you remember below famous quotes? What do they mean to you? Marc Andreessen famously said that “ Software is eating the world”.