Software Architecture

Define, review, and tune your software architecture with KDAB's support

It is easy to make fundamental mistakes with the software architecture of a complex system. Diligent groundwork to get it right from the start often proves significant in creating better software. Let KDAB review your existing plans and code base, review your ideas, and suggest alternative routes. Alternatively, based on our broad experience of similar projects, we can guide you in drafting a new software architecture from scratch.

KDAB engineers have experience of many different approaches in the embedded and desktop space to tackling whole-stack challenges in software architecture.

Embedded Software Architecture

In the embedded space, we have experience building medical products, industrial machines, in-vehicle infotainment systems, consumer-grade touchscreen user interfaces, rich multimedia experiences, and more. We also have in-depth skills in building scalable, robust, and high-performing platforms that serve multiple product lines, secure connectivity with cloud services, mobile devices and apps, and more.

Cross-platform Desktop Software Architecture

Using Qt, we can guide you in targeting a desktop platform for the first time, such as Mac or Android. We can assist with integrating high-performance 3D and 2D rendering and creating an interface with enterprise IT. Additionally, we can help you handle very large amounts of data in large-scale products across various industries, including the scientific space, oil and gas exploration, finance, gaming, and entertainment.

Software Architecture & Cybersecurity

Software architecture plays a key role in any defense-in-depth cybersecurity strategy. KDAB engineers can help ensure your architecture integrates sound security principles from the start. This provides robust protection against threats, helps identify and mitigate risks, and implements essential security controls like authentication and encryption.

Your well-designed architecture will support efficient incident response and be adaptable to evolving security needs, maintaining the system's integrity and resilience over time.

Examples of KDAB software architecture services

System structure

Get assistance in validating your ideas for structuring and constructing your system and optimizing its foundation for long-term sustainability. Our analysis can help avoid architectural errors and build a scalable, maintainable system that aligns with your objectives.

Rethinking approaches

Rethink your current approaches when they are not delivering. We can assess your existing system, pinpoint inflexibilities, and propose alternative architectures to enhance flexibility, redesigning components to facilitate future changes.

Choosing hardware

Make informed hardware decisions that drive performance and cost efficiency. KDAB's cross-industry experience can help you select the best hardware for your needs, avoid expensive mistakes, and ensure support for your software's full potential. Read more...

Third-party integration

Incorporate external tools without compromising your system. Our integration strategies can help you expand functionality using external libraries or APIs while maintaining system integrity and enhancing your product's capabilities.

Cross-platform issues

Deliver a consistent, high-quality experience across all platforms. Identify and resolve cross-platform discrepancies to ensure flawless Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems performance.

Scaleable applications

Help your application scale and stay flexible with architectures that handle increasing loads without compromising performance or maintainability. Get assistance with modular design, resource management, and distributed computing.

Modules of a typical software architecture workshop

1. Review existing architectural ideas, documents, code artifacts, and drafts
2. Create a rough architecture sketch to get you started
3. Provide experience-based best-practice input
4. Suggest alternate approaches, discuss pros and cons
5. Help you select hardware, operating systems, display technologies and UI techniques
6. Systematically work through all aspects of the architecture, incl. risk mitigation

7. Challenge and clarify assumptions
8. Discuss developer tooling, development process, and potential skill gap consideration
9. Performance, robustness, scalability, testability, maintenance, and business value concerns
10. Documentation of the workshop in the format that works best for you
11. Proposals for next steps: i.e. prototypes to validate assumptions, clear up risks, etc.
+ Adjustments to the workshop can be made according to your specific needs.

Navigating Modern Development Challenges

The KDAB software architecture service aims to empower your team to navigate the complexities of modern development. Take advantage of expert guidance to leverage the latest web engines and graphics drivers, implementing innovative approaches to separate business logic from presentation layers, and harnessing advanced display technologies like Wayland, OpenGL, and Vulkan. Our experts can help you tackle concurrency and multi-process architectures, ensuring your systems are robust and scalable.

We prioritize safety, testability, and maintainability, integrating best practices that enhance the longevity and reliability of your software. Transform your software architecture and stay ahead in the ever-evolving software engineering and design landscape.

Get in touch

If you have questions about software architecture or want to discuss a project, we look forward to hearing from you.