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# In-depth trade-off analyses Expert-driven architectural insights Comprehensive microservices patterns Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures

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> 🚀 Architect the future: trade-offs, patterns, and power moves for modern software design

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- • **Trusted by Professionals:** Join thousands of architects and engineers elevating their craft with a 4.6-star rated bestseller.
- • **Master Complex Trade-Offs:** Navigate architectural dilemmas with expert-backed analysis to make confident design decisions.
- • **Holistic System Perspective:** Gain a 360° view of distributed systems, covering code, databases, and network challenges.
- • **No One-Size-Fits-All Solutions:** Understand the nuanced pros and cons of every approach—embrace smart trade-offs, not dogma.
- • **Real-World Microservices Blueprint:** Follow a compelling narrative that transforms a monolith into a scalable microservices architecture.

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‘Software Architecture: The Hard Parts’ is a top-rated O'Reilly book that dives deep into the practical challenges of designing distributed systems. It offers expert trade-off analyses and real-world microservices patterns through a narrative-driven approach, empowering software architects and engineers to refactor legacy monoliths and build scalable, maintainable architectures. With 614 reviews averaging 4.6 stars, it’s a must-have resource for professionals aiming to master the complexities of modern software design.

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Review: Excellent Patterns and Analysis Techniques for Microservice Architectures - This is a great book! It is a sequel to the authors' prior book, "Fundamentals of Software Architecture" (which isn't a prerequisite to this book, but is helpful). I liked that book. This one is way better. Where the first book stayed fairly high level and abstract, and focused on working as an architect in a company, this book is all about actual tough architecture decisions in practice. It applies some of the the first book's approaches and patterns (and a whole bunch of new ones) towards a fictional example application which a dev team is tasked to completely refactor. Basically, the book is structured as a narrative about a team breaking down a faulty outdated monolithic application into a modern microservices-based architecture. Each chapter essentially compares different aspects of how a monolithic architecture might have been written to do something in the past, then how a modern microservice architecture could do the same thing today. Along the way the authors offer terrific advice and approaches for effective tradeoff analysis (and countless suggestions and tips) that you can use when refactoring a large monolith app (or when building microservices from scratch), detailing at every level how you might sort out a tangled mess of dependencies into a clean microservices stack - from shared code libs/components/modules, to shared database tables and schemas, to various network concerns, etc. There is nearly no code (it's not an implementation book), but the descriptions of each example scenario, pattern, diagram, and everything around it are extensive and detailed. The authors don't actually offer any definitive "best practice" in any of the scenarios they consider, but rather present all the pros and cons of each approach you might consider - which all together support their overall thesis that there are no right or wrong answers in architecture, only tradeoffs to weigh and consider for any given design challenge and possible architectural solution. I give this book my highest recommendation - it's a winner.
Review: Excellent guide to the thinking - Lots of books about architecture can give you a focus on a particular technique, or a technology. But this is one of the few I’ve found which captures a realistic scenario across an entire system, which is often where most of us face the greatest challenge. Nothing presented in the book is done in absolute terms, the rough edges are laid out, and wide varieties of technology categories are included. I’d call this a must read for anyone looking to architect a distributed system, or who are looking to handle a debt ridden system in general, to find the mindset and practices needed to support it.

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| Best Sellers Rank | 33,099 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 4 in Computer Databases (Books) 17 in Software Design & Development 18 in Computing & Internet for Professionals |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 614 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent Patterns and Analysis Techniques for Microservice Architectures
*by J***Y on 17 February 2022*

This is a great book! It is a sequel to the authors' prior book, "Fundamentals of Software Architecture" (which isn't a prerequisite to this book, but is helpful). I liked that book. This one is way better. Where the first book stayed fairly high level and abstract, and focused on working as an architect in a company, this book is all about actual tough architecture decisions in practice. It applies some of the the first book's approaches and patterns (and a whole bunch of new ones) towards a fictional example application which a dev team is tasked to completely refactor. Basically, the book is structured as a narrative about a team breaking down a faulty outdated monolithic application into a modern microservices-based architecture. Each chapter essentially compares different aspects of how a monolithic architecture might have been written to do something in the past, then how a modern microservice architecture could do the same thing today. Along the way the authors offer terrific advice and approaches for effective tradeoff analysis (and countless suggestions and tips) that you can use when refactoring a large monolith app (or when building microservices from scratch), detailing at every level how you might sort out a tangled mess of dependencies into a clean microservices stack - from shared code libs/components/modules, to shared database tables and schemas, to various network concerns, etc. There is nearly no code (it's not an implementation book), but the descriptions of each example scenario, pattern, diagram, and everything around it are extensive and detailed. The authors don't actually offer any definitive "best practice" in any of the scenarios they consider, but rather present all the pros and cons of each approach you might consider - which all together support their overall thesis that there are no right or wrong answers in architecture, only tradeoffs to weigh and consider for any given design challenge and possible architectural solution. I give this book my highest recommendation - it's a winner.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent guide to the thinking
*by N***E on 7 June 2022*

Lots of books about architecture can give you a focus on a particular technique, or a technology. But this is one of the few I’ve found which captures a realistic scenario across an entire system, which is often where most of us face the greatest challenge. Nothing presented in the book is done in absolute terms, the rough edges are laid out, and wide varieties of technology categories are included. I’d call this a must read for anyone looking to architect a distributed system, or who are looking to handle a debt ridden system in general, to find the mindset and practices needed to support it.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very useful advice in how to transition from a monolithic to a distributed architecture
*by J***. on 22 May 2022*

The first part of the book describes strategies on how to break apart a monolithic software package into components. The second part gives advise how to make those separated components work together. In doing so, the authors acknowledge that there is no such thing as “best practice” in how to design a system since every organisation has their own requirements and existing baggage to deal with. Designing a system fit for purpose is unique and hard. The book presents different options how to tackle most common problems and the associated trade-offs (e.g. data consistency vs. responsiveness). The red line throughout this book is a fictitious company where the IT department needs to re-architect the existing system. Each chapter starts with a discussion (i.e., meeting) of the problems that needs to be tackled. Then, the theoretical aspects are described. At the end of the chapter, the team makes a decision which seem to be appropriate for their specific situations based on trade-off analysis discussed in the theoretical part. This makes the book a very useful as one gets a pretty comprehensive understanding of various methodologies as well as possible practical applications.

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