Architect's talk [excerpt]

Design Goals

The software architecture design should achieve the following goals:
1. Reliable.The software system is extremely important to the user's business operation and management, so the software system must be very reliable.
2. Security (Secure).The commercial value of the transactions undertaken by the software system is extremely high, and the security of the system is very important.
3. Scalability (Scalable).The software must be able to maintain reasonable performance when the usage rate of users and the number of users increase rapidly.Only in this way can we adapt to the possibility of user market expansion.
4. Can be customized (Customizable).The same set of software can be adjusted according to different customer groups and changes in market demand.
5. Extensible.When a new technology emerges, a software system should allow the introduction of the new technology, thereby extending the functions and performance of the existing system.
6. Maintainability (Maintainable).The maintenance of the software system includes two aspects, one is to eliminate the existing errors, and the other is to reflect the new software requirements into the existing system.An easy-to-maintain system can effectively reduce technical support costs.
7. Customer Experience (Customer Experience).Software systems must be easy to use.
8. Time to Market.Software users face horizontal competition, and software providers also face horizontal competition.It is very important to compete for market opportunities with the fastest speed.