97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know
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I recently contributed to a book called ‘97 Things every sofware architect should know‘. It is a collection of axioms by various architects around the world including some famous names such as Allison Randal (The lead developer for Parrot), Bill de hÓra (Co-editor of Atom publishing protocol) , Michael Nygard (who wrote “Release It! Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software” – a 2008 Jolt Productivity Award Winner), Neal Ford (who wrote “The Productive Programmer”) and Rebecca Parsons (Thoughtworks CTO)
The book is now available for purchase from Amazon. The content of the book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3 license. You can read it on the wiki if you are not inclined to buy the dead-tree version.
The book is edited by Richard Monson-Haefel and Mike Loukides. Interestingly the Amazon editorial review quotes the axiom that I have contributed (“For the End-user,the interface is the System”). Unfortunately there was a limit of 300 words for the axioms and no companies or products could be mentioned as the editors wanted a certain timeless quantity for the axioms (and rightly so). I plan to explain what I meant in greater detail in a blog post soon.
Some more interesting trivia about the book.
* Currently the book has 5 star rating from 3 reviewers.
* It is #1 in the “Design and Architecture” Category and #5 in The Software Development Category in a short time frame. (It’s been about 2 weeks since it was released.)
The cover has the photos of every author (whose contribution was accepted) on it. My photo is 2nd from the leftt on the last row 
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