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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


Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 30, 2021


Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Print length ‏ : ‎ 459 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1492086894


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 95


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.4 ounces


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.75 x 9.25 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #63,225 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #3 in Software Design Tools #3 in Computer Systems Analysis & Design (Books) #4 in Software Testing


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    • Wish this book was published five years ago
Format: Kindle
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 and try to stick with it
Format: Kindle
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
    • Great book
Format: Paperback
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
    • An abstract analysis of distributed computing systems
Format: Audiobook
A software architect foresees potential issues in a design and judges which way will instill the most business success in the long run. Unfortunately, in almost every scenario, trade offs permeate every option. As the saying goes, the devil is in the details. Learning to anticipate problems with wisdom set great software architects apart from merely experienced ones. In this book, several experienced authors look at those trade offs in the context of distributed software systems that are so fashionable these days. Distributed systems and microservices are used in large systems that integrate for innovative results. When the computing is parsed, each system becomes its own special service, and breaking up the systems with minimal “coupling” between them becomes a challenge. In addition, businesses inevitably need to see the big picture of their work. Integrating the distributed system must happen, but no perfect way exists to implement integration. These sort of challenges require the careful wisdom this work offers. This book is extremely abstract because software architecture is abstract by its nature. It covers some of the most challenging topics in distributed systems. I chose to listen to an audiobook format and somewhat regret the choice. Instead, I would have preferred to read the book in print for several reasons. First, tables would be easier to parse. Second, some sections are lists of different combinations, and listening to these was extremely boring. Finally, the text is so abstract that I would have liked to hover my eyes over a word or look up past definitions. None of these are facilitated by an audiobook format, unfortunately. The content itself is good, but it only addresses a niche audience. I’ve never designed a distributed system from scratch, so this text helped me think through potential pitfalls. Via these principles, I mentally redesigned some of the smaller systems I work with so that I could see what a more distributed system might look like if we ever have to go that route. This book is not an introduction to software architecture but meant for more advanced practitioners. Still, the careful thought dwelling in these pages can prevent shortsighted mistakes, cut lost employee effort, and lessen company expenses. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2025 by Scott J. Pearson
    • Invaluable knowledge
Format: Kindle
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
    • great book
Format: Paperback
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
    • Used product was essentially new and never been used.
Format: Paperback
Book arrived in excellent condition.
Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2024 by Victor T Marilao

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