Software Architecture: The Hard Parts

Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures

By: Neal Ford, Mark Richards, Pramod Sadalage, Zhamak Dehghani

Narrated by: Dena Dahilig

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, 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.

This book provides techniques to help you discover and weigh the trade-offs as you confront the issues you face as an architect. You'll find out how to 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; and learn patterns to manage workflow and transactions when breaking apart applications.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2022 Neal Ford, Mark Richards, Pramod Sadalage, Zhamak Dehghani (P)2023 Ascent Audio

Easy to follow in audio format

Excellent, easy to follow despite audio format book on things in micro-service architectures that are technology agnostic and are always a problem

Software architecture explained in dialogues

loved the story line.

great and introspective explanation of thrush theoretical concepts

good narration

very useful read for a beginner or middle level developer, easy to listen

Great content. Terrible narration.

Narration is by a robot voice. This doesn’t translate to being understandable via audible. This is a shame because it would only require 5-10% of the content to be reworded to make sense. Chapter 11 is terrible with the narrator using the term “x to the power of y” several times per minute where this clearly was never meant to be a mathematical equation.