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

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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 Read more


Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (November 30, 2021)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Paperback ‏ : ‎ 459 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1492086894


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 95


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.65 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.75 x 9.25 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #25,672 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #2 in Software Design Tools #4 in Computer Systems Analysis & Design (Books) #7 in Software Testing


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    • Wish this book was published five years ago
I have been a CTO for ten years for companies big and small and have had to face the “legacy architect refactoring” challenge outlined in this book multiple times. This book would have saved us a lot of pain. While the tech and tooling for distributed architectures has gotten better and better the process for getting there hasn’t. The playbook outlined here is a must have for anyone facing the architecture modernization challenge. A few things that would make this book even better - Integrating DDD concepts especially around aggregates - Adding additional and/or more detailed decision dimensions for the people aspect (skills, org size and ability to grow, org design, etc), operations architecture, and development architecture. When making decisions these things have to be accounted for and these aspects seemed underplayed a bit. Overall though this is one of the most pragmatic books on tech I have read in a long time. A must read. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2023 by Derek Knudsen
    • Great book
This is a great book. I enjoyed it far more than the fundamentals book. If you can master Kleppmann for the infrastructure grounding and this for real life use cases you'll be well on your way. I really appreciated the fact that they point out tradeoffs *everywhere*. That's part of the job and it can be hard to see them when we gravitate toward one option because it feels right or because of groupthink. Some minor criticisms: * the Data Mesh chapter felt tacked on, underdeveloped and in some places was incorrect or at least confusing (e.g. it says data warehouses cause loss of domain partitioning which is not true) * The book talked about tradeoffs so much it wasn't always clear why they thought taking a certain path would hurt a certain quality attribute. "Because there is more coupling scalability will suffer", etc. Perhaps. But explaining how would be great. The book hints at some relationships between quality attributes. If that were more well-developed that could be a way to better understand these statements too. * While I'm sure it wasn't meant for effect, there is only one woman in the story portions, she is somewhat naive, a bossy PITA and has to be dragged along most of the time. Having the *only woman* play that role stood out to me as potentially insensitive. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2021 by Joe Lynch
    • Another Java-Enterprise camp book
First, the book smells bad. Literally. But w.r.t. the content - typical Java-Enterprise-camp OOP/DDD stuff: too high level to be applicable or useful in real life. It will make you feel smarter for a moment if you have no existing insights, but you'll forget it in a week anyway, and when the time comes to actually building anything, you won't remember anything, and make clueless decisions anyway. And if you do have some clue and experience, you'll easily see that there's nothing really insightful in it. These books are mostly written to get reputation as a subject expert, which helps score well paid enterprise consulting contracts, not to make you learn anything practically useful. Like most OOP/Java/DDD/enterprise SWE ones. That's why there's so many of them, while the down to earth and dense in information SWE books are so few. Go read Designing Data-Intensive Applications instead. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2023 by Joyce Ciezarkiewicz
    • great book
great content, worthy of Orielly .. very easy read for someone very familiar with all the concepts .. great reference and very practical - really cool .. thank you i bought three more titles because of this one :)
Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2023 by Ed
    • Too abstract and self-referential to be useful
The authors spend too much time inventing new jargon and sniffing their own farts. I struggled to find any practical advice. The text was incredibly verbose, and topics discussed were at such a high level that finding takeaways proved almost impossible.
Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2023 by Aaron
    • great and try to stick with it
I thought that this book was the sequel. It’s not. Similar topics are followed. The authors did deep into the weeds. I think that some material could have been reduced and presented more tightly. There were a few times when I thought: just get to the point. The real benefit of this book is that the authors try to provide thought leadership to architects who have to make decisions found in this book. I really like that the authors intentionally state that architecture is a lot more than a design pattern and the choices architects face are not boilerplate in terms of picking one pattern instead of another. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2022 by Joseph
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Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2023 by Diana
    • Invaluable knowledge
Love this book. The authors share their invaluable experience and knowledge in the book that worth every penny. I personally built a number of check-lists that I'm going to use in my trade-off analysis. The book is very well written. The authors carefully worked out every single paragraph to make it clear and easy to understand. The writing style and real world examples make the book very easy to read (well, maybe except the section about Data Mesh, which seems too abstract to me). If you liked "Fundamentals of Software Architecture" from Mark Richards and Neal Ford, you will certainly enjoy this one as a logical continuation of the latter. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2021 by Pavel

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