Architecture: Getting To the Point

The thing about PowerPoint slide presentations is that they can give you the wheat, but not the chaff. The tip, but not the iceberg. And that's okay. That's certainly the case with John Klein's presentation "Architecture and Design" which he presented this fall as a guest lecture for a computer science class at Tufts University.

Klein, who is Director of Architecture and Technology for the Unified Communications Division at Avaya, provides a good overview for the novice on what Software Architecture is all about. Reading through his slides, I almost wish I was back in school -- almost -- and that all lectures would be as good as Klein's probably was.

On the front end, he deals with definition, and on the back end he shares references. In between, he covers the requisite abstraction layers and separation of concerns, then puts them together to create an information-hiding module structure.

It's worth taking a few minutes to review Klein's slides, just as a reminder if nothing else.

Posted by Jon Erickson at 04:30 PM  Permalink