how to become great software architect?

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How to start learning software architecture, from what to start? what to read? what is more important in software architecture theoritical knowledge or what?

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Munib Butt6y ago
A very simple formula is to learn about different software architectures through courses, online tutorials, articles, books, and other media and then apply these in real world scenarios. If you do not get a chance to work on different scenarios in the real world, then simply spend 1-2 days a week where you define your own application for different environments and requirements and design the best architecture for it.
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Jin Necesario6y ago
In my opinion, there is no straight path. However; based on my experience I've seen great software architect. And some of their qualities is that they have depth knowledge of 2-3 or more technology stack. This is possible to achieve but it's quite hard.

Some traits of a great software architect, in my opinion, are:
in-depth knowledge of his tools and platforms
expert in OOP, design pattern
in-depth knowledge and experience in component reuse, maintainability, designs
good communicator in written as well as spoken.
Now to answer the question: "how to become a great software architect?".
Practice and learn every day
Be committed to your craft
Learn from other experts
Build a pet/personal/real project and use your software architect skills and learn from every project you have been exposed to.
I hope this helps.

Cheers,
Jin
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Bilal Shahzad6y ago
1) Theoritcal knowledge is must.
2) Practical exposure is the key. The more problems you face, the more solutions you know. It gives you understanding of "occurring patterns" => why do design patterns come.
3) Get yourself out of if/else, loops etc. and start seeing/thinking at infrastructure or deployment level or what you will do when load will be there or more users will come or more clients want to use your application. This will create problems for you to solve in your software and eventually you will be exploring pros & cons of current architecture or what is better there.
4) Now a days, Many great projects are open sourced. You may check your theory on those instead of waiting to get times to use your theory.
5) Keep repeating above points.
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Ashutosh Gupta6y ago
there is no direct step to reach there, you have to take set by step apprach, make your basic concept clear. understand full system not just one language..
learn enterprise artchitect that will help you to grow/
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Rajanikant Hawaldar6y ago
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