Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures Book pdf

I am a hands-on software architect, trainer, and published author. I’ve been in the industry since 1985, and I have experience in the architecture and delivery of Microservices Architectures, Service-Based Architectures, and Service-Oriented Architectures in a variety of platforms and languages. I’ve published numerous books and videos on areas of Microservices, software architecture, and enterprise messaging, and I have spoken at hundreds of conferences and user groups around the world. I am the founder of this website (DeveloperToArchitect.com), a website I started in January 2018 to help software developers in the move to becoming a software architect.

Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures book pdf by Mark Richards

There are no easy decisions in software architecture. Instead, there are many hard parts--difficult problems or issues with no best practices--that force you to choose among various compromises. With this book, you'll learn how to think critically about the trade-offs involved with distributed architectures. Architecture veterans and practicing consultants Neal Ford, Mark Richards, Pramod Sadalage, and Zhamak Dehghani discuss strategies for choosing an appropriate architecture. By interweaving a story about a fictional group of technology professionals--the Sysops Squad--they examine everything from how to determine service granularity, manage workflows and orchestration, manage and decouple contracts, and manage distributed transactions to how to optimize operational characteristics, such as scalability, elasticity, and performance. By focusing on commonly asked questions, this book provides techniques to help you discover and weigh the trade-offs as you confront the issues you face as an architect. • Analyze trade-offs and effectively document your decisions • Make better decisions regarding service granularity • Understand the complexities of breaking apart monolithic applications • Manage and decouple contracts between services • Handle data in a highly distributed architecture • Learn patterns to manage workflow and transactions when breaking apart applications