/tags/reference-architecture/ Recent content in Reference Architecture on Tracy Bannon Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sun, 30 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 /post/2023/2023-07-30-whyreferencearchitectures/ Sun, 30 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 /post/2023/2023-07-30-whyreferencearchitectures/ 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱! It’s missing the list of technology to use and how to knit them together. I heard this recently and became very aware that I needed to do a bit more mentoring on software architecture and in particular, reference architectures. Here’s the 411: A software reference architecture is a common abstraction or standardization of design that can be reused. Abstraction is the key and it serves as a guide for designing and building software systems in a particular domain.