To get the most out of this book

Prior knowledge of software development is expected to have the best reading experience. Since the software architecture topic itself is technology-agnostic, you do not need language-specific skills nor language-specific tools. However, for the sake of demonstration, some examples are based on .NET, Azure, and Kubernetes. If you want to reproduce them in your own environment, you will need the following:

Rest assured that you will be able to fully grasp the concepts discussed in this book even if you decide not to replay the examples by yourself.

If you are using the digital version of this book, we advise you to type the code yourself or access the code from the book's GitHub repository (a link is available in the next section). Doing so will help you avoid any potential errors related to the copying and pasting of code.