Characteristics of software architecture
All software architectures exhibit a common set of characteristics. Let us look at some of the most important ones here.
An architecture defines a structure
An architecture of a system is best represented as structural details of the system. It is a common practice for practitioners to draw the system architecture as a structural component or class diagram in order to represent the relationships between the subsystems.
For example, the following architecture diagram describes the backend of an application that reads from a tiered database system, which is loaded using an ETL process:
Example architecture diagram ...
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