num_pages: 459
description: 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.
language: English
title: Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures
publisher: O'Reilly Media