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Software architects are responsible for quite a lot. Designing interesting, complex software systems and working with different people feels good and is well worth the effort. Becoming a software architect is not an overnight journey. If you focus on the architect’s core responsibilities and do your best to apply the architectural fundamentals, mainly selecting structures to promote desired quality attributes, then you’ll do great.

In this chapter, you learned what architecture is and what architects do. In the next chapter, you’ll learn how to use design thinking to figure out what should go into the architecture.