Creating and maintaining software architecture that remains sustainable over time is a challenge for software architects and developers. Software Architects used to meet every requirement, provide every feature, and plan every system component at once with big software architecture upfront, which involves completing and perfecting architectural designs before implementations are started. Alternatively, teams might produce emergent architectures, where development teams start delivering functionality and let architectural designs emerge with little upfront planning. Unfortunately, none of those methods is consistently successful in delivering sustainable architecture.
Continuous Architecture Principles
As for “Continuous Architecture,” this is about using the appropriate tools to make the right decisions and support Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Testing. “Continuous Architecture” is an approach based on a toolbox — not a formal process.