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-I'm going to define a software systems architecture as

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-the set of principal design decisions about the system. Where

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-principal here, implies a degree of importance, that grants

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-a design decision architectural status. And the point here, as

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-we discussed with Neno early on, is that when

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-building a system, we make tons of design decisions, and

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-most of them do not affect the architecture of

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-the system. For example, the effect of choosing a for

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-loop, instead of a while loop, in the code, or the

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-fact of deciding that we are going to use data structure A

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-instead of data structure B. Some decisions however, do affect the

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-architecture of the system. And in some cases the distinction between these

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-two kinds of design decisions is clear. In some other cases

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-it is much fuzzier and it depends on the context. The

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-bottom line here, is that if you believe that something is

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-an important design decision, that becomes an architectural decision. That is a

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-decision that impacts a system's architecture. In this spirit,

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-we can see a software architecture as the blueprint

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-for a software system, that we can use to

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-construct and evolve the system. And the key point

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-about software architecture is that this blueprint encompasses every

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-facet of the system under development. It encompasses its

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-structure, of course, but not only. It also involves

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-the behavior of the system, the interactions within the system,

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-and the non-functional properties of the system. And we will see

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-how this happens in the rest of the lesson. Another important

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-point about software architecture is that there is a temporal aspect

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-to it. And the point here is that you don't build the

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-software architecture in a single shot, but you do it iteratively,

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-over time. So, basically, you go from having no architecture to

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-your final architecture. So, at any point in time, there is

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-a software architecture, but it will change over time. And this happens

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-because design decisions are made, unmade and changed over a system's lifetime.