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24 alternatives to Architectural Metapatterns Book [pdf]
I wrote a free book (CC BY license) on software architecture. It classifies architectural patterns / system designs into groups according to their structure, so that each group features a specific set of goals and properties, as structure and function correlate. That results in a kind of inheritance for patterns, making it easy to learn them and even iterate over all the known architectures to analyze their properties. Any feedback and ideas on how to promote the book is warmly welcome!
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Architectural Metapatterns Book [pdf] launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hey HN, I just wanted to share that after five months of intense work and countless caffeine-fueled writing sessions, "Master Software Architecture: A Pragmatic Guide" is now available. Writing this book was a crazy time. I entirely focused on it, and it took exactly 753 hours of writing, editing, and image editing & resizing(!) until the premiere. Yes, the last one (images) was a killer. If you ever think about writing a book, reserve a lot of time for it unless someone else does it for you. As a result, I am handing you the nearly 400-page book. It is a guide that will help you connect all…
2024 · leanpub.com · its alternatives →
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The book page links to a blog post that explains how I got about it (and has a link to sample content), but the TL&DR is that I could not find a lot of books that were on "our" history _and_ were larded with technical details. So I set about writing one, and some five years later I'm happy to share the result. I think it's one of the few "computer history" books that has tons of code, but correct me if I'm wrong (I wrote this both to tell a story and to learn :-)). My favorite languages are Smalltalk and Lisp, but as an Emacs user, I've been using the latter for much longer and for my…
Feb 2026 · berksoft.ca · its alternatives →
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PATTTTERNS▲129Build your FREE UI Library based on real UX-UI patterns.
2021 · patttterns.com · its alternatives →
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Free to use patterns by awesome designers
2014 · thepatternlibrary.com · its alternatives →
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Elements of reusable object-oriented software
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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This book explains how to implement DDD, CQRS and Event Sourcing. The concepts are put into practice with standalone examples and a Sample Application.
2020 · leanpub.com · its alternatives →
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Applying Patterns to Solve Design Problems
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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How to plan, build, and document pattern libraries
2017 · uibreakfast.com · its alternatives →
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Dozens of practical examples and workflows
2016 · smashingmagazine.com · its alternatives →
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An ultra-simplified explanation to Design Patterns
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A practical guide to object oriented design
2016 · sandimetz.com · its alternatives →
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I started writing this book 10 years ago in JavaScript, got through a few chapters (asymptotic notation, basic techniques, start of sorting), and then abandoned it. Recently I picked it back up, converted everything to TypeScript, and used AI (Zenflow [1] + Claude Opus 4.6) to complete the remaining chapters. I provided the structure, direction, and initial chapters; the AI generated the bulk of the remaining content under a spec-driven workflow. The book covers roughly a first 1-2 year CS curriculum: sorting, dynamic programming, graph algorithms, trees, heaps, hash tables, and more. All…
Mar 2026 · amoilanen.github.io · its alternatives →
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"The Bible" of all fundamental algorithms for programming
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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📕 SystemDesign.org Textbook for System Design ✅ Step-by-Step Illustrated Guide ✅ Curated Questions ✅ + pages ✅ Completely Free 🤑 📖 Document link: systemdesign.org Why are we writing this book? After talking to hundreds of engineers and candidates at FAANG companies, we fo...
2021 · docs.google.com · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone! I built Composer, which is a tool turns your ideas into architecture diagrams. You can also use MCP to turn your EXISTING codebase into a visual diagram! It connects to all possible tools using MCP (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, etc.) The goal was to make system design easier and to be able to draw out what I wanted to make before I started / to explain to others. Its currently live at usecomposer.com and free! I’d love feedback on whether it feels useful for real projects and where it breaks down. :) Thank you
Apr 2026 · usecomposer.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · craftinginterpreters.com · its alternatives →
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Nature of Code▲107Learn to program computer simulations of natural systems
2017 · natureofcode.com · its alternatives →
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Little book of big ideas
2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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I have spent years trying to understand and follow established software architectures - and wound up writing my own at the end: SRA (Specification - Realization - Assembly). Please do check it out and let me know what you think! Background: Whenever I would learn a new architecture, the initial ideas seemed interesting but the implementation almost always ended up with my autistic sense of detail screaming loudly about one or more shortcomings and even inconsistencies. For example, a lot of architectures rely on human discipline, give certain aspects of the software - such as the UI - an…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A free digital book on design systems
2019 · programmingdesignsystems.com · its alternatives →
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Pek Pongpaet teaches us successful UX is in design patterns.
2016 · its alternatives →
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