Modern Approach to Software Architecture: Complex Trade-offs

There are no simple solutions in software architecture. On the contrary, there are numerous complexities—tasks and problems for which there are no ready-made answers, and one has to choose between various trade-offs. This book will teach you to critically approach the trade-offs associated with distributed architectures. Experienced architects Neal Ford, Mark Richards, Pramod Sadalage, and Zhamak Dehghani discuss strategies for choosing an architecture suitable for specific cases. The story of the Sysops Squad—a fictional group of specialists—allows exploring all aspects of architecture selection: from defining the degree of service granularity, managing workflows and orchestration, separating contracts and managing distributed transactions to optimizing operational characteristics such as scalability, adaptability, and performance.