With Enterprise Rails, author Dan Chak's gives you the tools to develop applications for the enterprise world for websites with global scale. In his new book, Chak, who has worked for Amazon.com, shows you how to make successful architectural choices from the beginning of a project. Read on for an excerpt, "What is Enterprise."
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We recently released Beautiful Architecture, a beautiful new book with a lovely image of a nautilus shell gracing the cover. The collection of essays from more than a dozen of today's leading software designers and architects illuminates the necessary ingredients for robust, elegant, and flexible architecture. Here John Klein, Software Engineering Institute, and David Weiss, Avaya Laboratories, grapple with the multiple definitions of architect.
97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts arrived this week. Edited by enterprise computing expert, Richard Monson-Haefel, this new book presents the expert advice of more than four dozen leading architects. In this excerpt, Thoughtworks CTO Rebecca Parsons explains why it's never too early to think about performance.




