Heterogeneity, along with the multiplicity factor, leads to heightened complexity for any system development and operation. The enigmatic yet exemplary software engineering (SE) space is being stuffed and sandwiched with innumerable and heterogeneous technologies and tools. Their intended and insightful use seems a bit challenging, but their contributions are mesmerizing and meteoric indeed if utilized properly.
Interestingly, every kind of asset and artifact in our personal, professional, and social environments is being embedded and emboldened by pioneering software libraries. With continuous software penetration and participation in everything we touch, feel, and use, we are to have a bevy of sophisticated and smarter applications in plenty. Precisely speaking, we are heading toward the promised software-defined world. However, the developmental and operational complexities of next-generation software applications are literally threatening. That is, leveraging the various delectable advancements in the software engineering domain actually turns out to be a difficult affair. Therefore, there is a clarion call for unearthing easy to understand and use approaches to moderate software engineering complexity.
Accentuating, assimilating, and articulating architecturally sound principles for high-quality software implementation and delivery has been pronounced by technology experts, exponents, and evangelists as a workable way out of this dilemma. Elegantly employing architectural patterns, along with design, deployment, integration, and other specialized patterns, is the way forward for producing and running next-generation software solutions. An arsenal of software patterns (architecture, design, deployment, integration, and so on.) come in handy for the risk-free and rewarding production of highly reliable, scalable, available, performant, adaptive, and secure software systems. This book has been produced with the sole and simple aim of enumerating and expressing prominent and dominant software patterns for its readers. The various chapters and their unique contributions are briefly explained here.
