📝What is Architecture?

• Architecture as what’s most important

• Architecture as things hard to change

  • with good architecture, there are little things hard to change

• Architecture as a shared understanding

• Architecture as a set of important decisions

• Theory Building View of programming—architecture as overarching theory

• Architecture as product design/specification

• Architecture is a buzzword

• Architecture as financial options

In other fields:

• In building

• Enterprise architecture

  Enterprise architecture is a description of the structure and behavior of an organization’s processes, information flow, personnel, and organizational subunits aligned with organization’s core goals and strategic direction. —Bass…₂₀₁₃

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• 📝 Architecture as what’s most important
• 📝 What Architects do?
• 📝 § Software Architecture