Software architects plan, model, and analyze the high-level design of software systems. Today, these systems are often deployed in cloud computing environments as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. The scalability of these applications is crucially impacted by architects’ early design decisions. Architects decide based on their experience and known architectural styles like a 3-tier arc...

Architectural creations occur throughout the animal kingdom, with invertebrates and vertebrates building structures such as homes to maximize their Darwinian fitness. Animal architects face many trade-offs in building optimally designed structures. But what about animals that do not build, and those that only remodel the original creations of others: do such secondary architects face similar tr...

To answer this question section 2 motivates testing by providing a multidimensional view on what testing really is. Then in section 3 practices in testing regarding software architecture are presented which require active involvement and contributions by software architects. This results not only in better quality but also speeds up development by facilitating change and decreasing maintenance ...

Genome organization and compaction in Archaea involves different chromatin proteins, among which homologues of eukaryotic histones. Archaeal histones are considered the ancestors of their eukaryotic counterparts, which is reflected in the way they position along the genome and wrap DNA. Evolution from the archaeal modes of action to the prototypical eukaryotic nucleosome may be attributed to al...

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