Interesting book on patterns in architecture written by Paul Andersen and David Salomon.. We first heard from Paul, founder of !ndie Architecture, when he was on the short list for the 2009 P.S.1 ...

Galleria di Diana in Venaria Royal Palace, an example of Classical architecture. The Classical Language is an example of an "extremely successful form language". Image Courtesy of shutterstock.com ...

I have a few general architecture patterns to follow: ... In other words, optimize applications so that they use the fewest number of resources to process data and drive function.

The Command pattern, for instance, encapsulates a request as an object, allowing for parameterization of clients with different requests, queuing of requests, and support for undoable operations.

The site is similar to SOA patterns, which cataloges key design patterns for service oriented architecture. Arcitura president Thomas Erl is the organizer behind both efforts.

This sounds great in theory but can spiral out of control without a coherent strategy, said Susan Fowler, site reliability engineer at Uber, at the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference in San ...