TFA is basically a Cliff's Notes version of that link.

There's also the full-blown book version at https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/fundamentals-of-softwar...

$40 dollaryroos for that boy howdy. No wonder nobody knows how to make software, by the time you can afford a stack of these you already have the job.

It's been that way forever. I live in a third world country, for me $40 is a week's expense (total, including food, bills, and so on). If it wasn't for some, ahem, less reputable means of obtaining learning material, I would be carrying boxes in some warehouse right now.

The Architecture of Open Source Applications[1] book are available for free online, and that Fundamentals of Software Architecture is on LibGen.

1: https://aosabook.org/en/index.html

This is incredible! Breadth, depth and no crap formatting. I can't believe that this isn't more well known.

[Disclaimer: I know both Mark and Neal well. I don't think it matters here but I just wanted that out of the way]

Their follow-up book to Software Architecture Fundamentals is also available on O'Reilly - https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/software-architect...

Definitely not a 5min read though

But on the other hand, you cannot really expect a full explanation of software patterns in 5 minutes.

Actually it was. It was ok as an overview.

This would take 5 minutes to read if you already know what you're looking for and you use it as a reference or refresher.

I think he meant the mentioned O'Reilly link isn't a 5 minute read.

According to Instapaper, the O'Reilly article is a 43 minute read.