Ask HN: Resources for non-web software architecture?

[xqb64]

I'm looking for resources (primarily books, papers, and YT videos) on software architecture. I'm NOT interested in Monolith vs Microservices type of material -- but rather material applicable in general, or systems programming in particular.

[khaledh]

I wish software had recipes for architecture. Design patterns are not the answer IMO. The problem with such approaches is that they tend to focus on the patterns themselves. Great software architecture emerges from modelling the problem itself, rather than trying to shoehorn the problem into a predefined set of patterns.

Start with deeply understanding the problem and let it guide you to choosing the right abstractions, dependencies, and arrangement of the various pieces into a system. It's more of an art than science: learn how to use a brush and mix colors then follow your vision, rather than using a set of cookie cutters that tend to produce something that obscures the obvious, and usually simpler, solution to the problem.

[renfbatista]

I disagree, especially if you are building software with other developers. Patterns help everyone get on the same page more easily and build better software. This is an engineering aspect that is often missing in software development because we tend to invent solutions based only on our own perspective