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What do we mean by a software architecture? To me the term architecture conveys a notion of the core elements of the system, the pieces that are difficult to change. A foundation on which the rest must be built.

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Dooley, J.F. (2017). Software Architecture. In: Software Development, Design and Coding. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3153-1_5

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