说明：  Beautiful Architecture -- 英文版 全球19位顶尖架构师智慧结晶 本书围绕5个主题领域来组织本书的内容：概述、企业应用、系统、最终用户应用和编程语言。本书让最优秀的设计师和架构师来描述他们选择的软件架构，剥开架构的各层，展示他们如何让软件做到实现功能、可靠、易用、高效率、可维护、可移植和优雅。
(Beautiful Architecture, 1st Edition by Diomidis Spinellis Georgios Gousios ------------------------------------ Publisher: O Reilly Media, Inc. Pub Date: January 29, 2009 -------------------------------------- With this book, you ll discover: How Facebook s architecture is the basis for a data-centric application ecosystem The effect of Xen s well-designed architecture on the way operating systems evolve How community processes within the KDE project help software architectures evolve from rough sketches to beautiful systems How creeping featurism has helped GNU Emacs gain unanticipated functionality The magic behind the Jikes RVM self-optimizable, self-hosting runtime Design choices and building blocks that made Tandem the choice platform in high-availability environments for over two decades Differences and similarities between object-oriented and functional architectural views How architectures can affect the software s evolution and the developer)