Building an Application Development Framework : Empower Your Engineering Teams with Custom Frameworks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Padabed, Ivan.

Contributor:

Voronin, Roman.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, Limited, 2025.

Summary:

Craft powerful, reusable frameworks to streamline your software development process and boost team efficiency.Key Features Design, develop, and deploy a tailored application development framework (ADF) for your needs Master industry best practices for effective ADF creation and implementation Ensure engineering excellence by measuring and.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Contributors

Table of Contents

Preface

Part 1: Foundations of Application Development Frameworks

Understanding the landscape and building a common language.

Chapter 1: Introduction to Application Development Frameworks

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Introduction and historical references

Breaking down Application Development Framework

Application Programming Interface

Library

Software Development Kit

Framework

Platform

Domain Specific Language

Differentiating ADF and other Types of Frameworks

Architecture Frameworks

Software Delivery Frameworks

Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and Flow

Summary

Reference

Chapter 2: Strategizing ADF for Success

Introducing Systems Engineering as the grounding theory

Establishing a Context for the framework

Django

ReactJS - building a better ads engine

Defining ADF success factors

Engineering leaders (CTOs, Engineering Directors, Team Leads)

Architects

Developers

Quality Assurance (QA)

Product Managers and Business Analysts

Exploring Software Development Lifecycle models

Estimating success metrics and ROI

Shift towards Open Source Software paradigm

Increased innovation and collaboration

Enhanced security

Cost efficiency

Improved quality and reliability

Technological brand, community, and ecosystem building

Talent attraction and retention

Market positioning and reputation

Interoperability and standards

Efficient technical problem resolution

Educational value

Regulatory and compliance benefits

Chapter 3: Application Development Framework Blueprint

ADF structure patterns

Entity/object definition

Model-View-Controller.

Model-View-Presenter

Model-View-Template

Entity/object registration

Managing object processors

Extending by functional plugins

Technical flow pattern

Data flow

Error handling and recovery

Source code structuring

Ease of navigation and discoverability

Minimal dependencies

Source code availability

Other recommendations and best practices

ADF maturity model

ADF MM levels

Level 1: Unextracted

Level 2: Minimal viable Framework (MVF)

Level 3: Bulletproof Framework

Level 4: Advanced extensible Framework

Level 5: Comprehensive ecosystem Framework

Defining a tech stack

Technologies

ADF Canvas guide

Programming languages

Development tooling

Part 2: Building a Framework

Design, architecture, and implementation practices

Chapter 4: Defining Your Tech Stack

Key concept and alignment with technological realms

Exploring languages and libraries

Core programming languages

Interface programming languages

Configuration and management languages

Storage, transport, and calculations

Typical storage requirements

Relational databases

NoSQL databases

Columnar databases

Graph databases

Storage

File storage

Block storage

Object storage

Distributed log storage

Vector databases

RAG storage engine selection

Transport and contract definition

Shared memory

Networking in distributed systems

Message brokers

Pub/sub systems

GraphQL

gRPC

Platforms for computation and distributed computing

Parallelized calculation platforms and APIs

Distributed computing engines

Chapter 5: Architecture Design

General tasks of framework architecture

Framework level: building the foundation

Framework community level: extending the ecosystem.

Application level: the final layer of implementation

Framework architecture components

Core

Libraries and drivers

Design patterns

Code patterns

MVC

HMVC

MVVM

MVP

Data management patterns

CQRS pattern

Event Sourcing pattern

Materialized View pattern

Structuring a framework for extensibility

Modular design

Leveraging design patterns

Dependency injection

API-first design

Configuration management

Versioning strategy

Extensible data model

Chapter 6: ADF Development Fundamentals

Prototyping techniques and best practices

A minimal agent invocation

Defining core abstractions and control flow

Introducing roles and agent routing

Separating the framework into a package and introducing the application context

Packaging and distributing

Libraries and transports

Embracing agile principles for responsive development

Chapter 7: Documenting and Releasing a Framework

Establishing a robust documentation foundation

Documentation as a continuation of an ADF

Types of documentation

Documentation focus by ADF maturity level

Automating documentation generation

Using source control systems for documentation publishing and hosting

End-to-end generation, publishing, and hosting

Navigation and search for ADF documentation

Structuring navigation for ADF documentation

Enhancing search with indexing and metadata

Cross-linking and contextual navigation

Step-by-step guide: Building and maintaining ADF documentation

Creating a concept-level description

Providing architecture references

Writing tutorial guides for ADF adoption

How-to guides for specific scenarios

Generating and maintaining reference documentation

Ongoing maintenance and documentation strategy.

Developing and optimizing API documentation for clarity and usability

Documenting how to define and implement APIs

Supporting application developers in creating their own API documentation

Schema-driven versus code-first approach

Integration with common documentation tools

Enhancing developer productivity through integrated tooling

Summarizing the documentation strategy for ADF-enabled APIs

Implementing effective versioning and release strategies

Build and deployment process

Repository and branching strategy

Build automation

Release and artifact distribution

Release lifecycle phases

Complementary release practices

Versioning and metadata

Navigating issue tracking and collaboration platforms

Part 3: Evolving a Framework

Sustaining relevance through continuous improvement

Chapter 8: Evolving a Framework

Embarking on an ADF initiative

Uncovering the opportunity

Collaborating: finding your team

Identifying "quick wins"

Get support to secure resources

Making it transparent and useful for others

Enjoying the process

Guiding the ADF initiative: a product way

Adopting the product mindset for your ADF

Establishing feedback loops

Prioritization and iteration

Roadmapping beyond the initial build

Measuring success and proving value

Adoption metrics

Developer Experience (DevEx) metrics

SDLC impact metrics

Closing the loop: measurement informs the path

Hardening security along the ADF evolution path

Secure design and architecture

Secure-by-default framework APIs

Strict abstraction boundaries and isolation

Role-based access control for components

Secure runtime patterns

Language-specific security strategies

Incident response and vulnerability disclosure

Establishing a security team or responsible persons.

Triage and risk assessment

Developing the fix in private

Coordinated disclosure timing

Preparing the advisory

Issuing patches and updates

Post-incident analysis

Handling public vulnerability reports

Incident response for compromises

Community trust

Security practices mapped to ADF maturity levels

Finding inspiration from the creators

Key role of Developer Experience (DX)

Maintenance effort grows over time

The priority of documentation

The importance of community

Framework security: responsibilities and challenges

Balancing framework specialization and universalization

AI-native development with an ADF

Integrating generative AI with ADFs

Constitutional AI as a guiding paradigm

Anatomy of a framework constitution (FRAMEWORK.md)

The system prompt: establishing the AI's persona

Embedding advanced prompting techniques in the constitution

Meta-prompts and self-correction loops

Multi-agent systems: a phased approach to a "panel of experts"

Phase 1: the dedicated "framework expert"

Phase 2: decomposition into a specialized panel

Phase 3: hierarchical orchestration

1. What ADFs are all about and why they're a big deal (Chapter 1)

2. Why and how to get started with your ADF (Chapters 2 and 8)

3. Smart building: good design, solid tech, and practical steps (Chapters 3, 4, 5, and 6)

4. Making your framework real: docs, releases, and security (Chapters 6, 7, and 8)

5. Keeping it going: a product approach for lasting value (Chapters 2 and 8)

6. The never-ending story: the rewarding work of building frameworks (Chapter 8)

7. Final words: the last mile

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Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-83620-856-1

1-83620-857-X

OCLC:

1542989300

Publisher Number:

CIPO000262625

CIPO000262626