Description:

  • Treat an architecture of a specific system as:
    • a collection of computational components
    • a description of interactions between these components.
  • Graphically speaking,
    • Nodes represent the components
    • Arcs represent the connectors (procedure call, event broadcast, database queries, and pipes, etc.)
  • Set of constraints on how these elements can be combined. E.g., no cycles

Software architecture/design patterns

Conway’s law