This is a minimalist software architecture reading list based on my current work context. Last updated on 5^th August 2018. This list is deliberately kept short in the spirit of Pareto principle, a vital few resources (20%) having (80%) impact.    

Books

• Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin, 2017 
• Building Microservices, Designing fine-grained systems, Sam Newman, 2015
• .NET Microservices. Architecture for Containerized .NET Applications, 2018
  • PDF: https://aka.ms/microservicesebook
  • HTML: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/microservices-architecture/
• Serverless apps: Architecture, patterns, and Azure implementation
  • PDF: https://aka.ms/serverless-ebook
  • HTML: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/serverless-architecture/

Blogs

Big Picture

• DDD, Hexagonal, Onion, Clean, CQRS, … How I put it all together
• Dependency Inversion Using Ports and Adapters

Repository | Query

• Repositories or Command / Query Objects?
• Favor query objects over repositories
• How do Repositories fit with CQRS?

Example Code Repositories

• Demo of Ports and Adapters Architecture
  • https://bitbucket.org/bb-mhaque/demo-ports-and-adapters/
• eShopOnContainers – Microservices Architecture and Containers based Reference Application (BETA state – Visual Studio 2017 and CLI environments compatible)
  • URL: https://github.com/dotnet-architecture/eShopOnContainers

Glossary / Terminology

• Glossary of Domain Driven Design Terms
• CQRS and DDD terminology