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
