Where are all the modern software design books?
There was a huge burst of creativity around software design & analysis from the late 1980s up to the early 2000s (All the OOD ones, GoF, Fowler, Martin, Evans, HtDP etc) and then there's not been much since (except for DDD stuff)
There was a huge burst of creativity around software design & analysis from the late 1980s up to the early 2000s (All the OOD ones, GoF, Fowler, Martin, Evans, HtDP etc) and then there's not been much since (except for DDD stuff)
Recently there has been some new activity: "A Philosophy of Software Design", "Secure By Design" and just now "Software Design for Flexibility".
("Designing Data-Intensive Applications" and "Code as a Crime Scene/Software Design X–Rays" are great but not really design books imo)
("Designing Data-Intensive Applications" and "Code as a Crime Scene/Software Design X–Rays" are great but not really design books imo)
Yes, there's been been lots of architecture ones, first SOA and now microservices, but I don't count those as software design either. If you search on Amazon, there's nothing too interesting other than the ones I already mentioned. Many are really old! amazon.com/gp/bestsellers…
So, why is this? Is there is nothing new to say in software design over the last 20 years? Or did Agile's fear of BDUF kill off design thinking? Or is it just that design books don't sell? (I don't think the last one is a factor, because there are not many blogs on design either)
Anyway, I'm interested in other people's takes on this!
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