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Real-Time Design Patterns: Robust Scalable Architecture for Real-Time Systems Review by Chris Depee
Great Book - Belongs on everyone's reference shelf
I *strongly* disagree with the other reviewer here. This book IS, of course, a collection of real-time architecture patterns (see the author's other books for tutorial info on these topics), and it is the *ONLY* such collection of design patterns for real-time systems. There is a lot of tutorial and reference material out there on these topics but nothing that serves as a pattern reference for the topics that we real-timers care so much about - safety and reliability architectures, concurrency patterns, resource and memory management, distributed architectures, and so on. Each pattern is provided with useful example of its application as well as the pros and cons of each. Where else can you even find a pattern-oriented discussion of the pros and cons of using priority ceiling versus simultaneous locking versus ordered locking for the protection of resources? And there are patterns discussed here that I haven't seen elsewhere. I feel that I now *finally* really understand the issues of software architecture for real-time systems and have a place to find solutions to my problems on my upcoming project. This book is fantastic for the more-than-beginner and belongs on everyone's reference shelf. Highly recommended!