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# Books referenced

> Imported source page from Denys Poltorak's *Architectural Metapatterns* wiki. Source path: `Appendices/Books referenced.md`.

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**DDD** – Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software. *Eric Evans. Addison-Wesley (2003).* (Most of these patterns are also well-described in \[[LDDD](#lddd)\])

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**DDIA** – Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems. *Martin Kleppmann. O’Reilly Media, Inc. (2017).*

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**DDS** – Designing Distributed Systems: Patterns and Paradigms for Scalable, Reliable Services. *Brendan Burns. O’Reilly Media, Inc. (2018).*

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**DEDS** – Designing Event-Driven Systems: Concepts and Patterns for Streaming Services with Apache Kafka. *Ben Stopford. O’Reilly Media, Inc. (2018).*

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**EIP** – Enterprise Integration Patterns. *Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf. Addison-Wesley (2003).*

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**FSA** – Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach. *Mark Richards and Neal Ford. O’Reilly Media, Inc. (2020).*

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**GoF** – Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. *Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides. Addison-Wesley (1994).*

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**LDDD** – Learning Domain-Driven Design: Aligning Software Architecture and Business Strategy. *Vlad Khononov. O’Reilly Media, Inc. (2021).* (Duplicates \[[DDD](#ddd)\] thus I marked as \[LDDD\] only patterns not covered by \[[DDD](#ddd)\])

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**MP** – Microservices Patterns: With Examples in Java. *Chris Richardson. Manning Publications (2018)*.

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**PEAA** – Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture. *Martin Fowler. Addison-Wesley Professional (2002).*

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**POSA1** – Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture Volume 1: A System of Patterns. *Frank Buschmann, Regine Meunier, Hans Rohnert, Peter Sommerlad and Michael Stal. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (1996).*

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**POSA2** – Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture Volume 2: Patterns for Concurrent and Networked Objects. *Douglas C. Schmidt, Michael Stal, Hans Rohnert, Frank Buschmann. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (2000).*

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**POSA3** – Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture Volume 3: Patterns for Resource Management. *Michael Kircher, Prashant Jain. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (2004).*

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**POSA4** – Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture Volume 4: A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing. *Frank Buschmann, Kevlin Henney, Douglas C. Schmidt. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (2007).*

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**POSA5** – Pattern Oriented Software Architecture Volume 5: On Patterns and Pattern Languages. *Frank Buschmann, Kevlin Henney, Douglas C. Schmidt*. *John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (2007).*

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**SAHP** – Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures. *Neal Ford, Mark Richards, Pramod Sadalage, and Zhamak Dehghani. O’Reilly Media, Inc. (2021).*

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**SAP** – Software Architecture Patterns. *Mark Richards. O’Reilly Media, Inc. (2015).* (All of the architectures referenced here are in \[[FSA](#fsa)\] as well, but \[SAP\] is free)