--- product_id: 343608315 title: "Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Tradeoff Analysis" price: "HK$896" currency: HKD in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.hk/products/343608315-software-architecture-the-hard-parts-modern-tradeoff-analysis store_origin: HK region: Hong Kong --- # Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Tradeoff Analysis **Price:** HK$896 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Tradeoff Analysis - **How much does it cost?** HK$896 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.hk](https://www.desertcart.hk/products/343608315-software-architecture-the-hard-parts-modern-tradeoff-analysis) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## 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. 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 Review: Brings structure to solving hard problems - The book is a must read for all who aspire to build modern systems. Microservices or otherwise. No one builds all-in-one super systems. The question is always whether to go full blown microservices or a compromise solution that's neither a monolith or a microservice. Microservices is definitely not a low cost architecture thats easy to recommend. The answer is always "it depends". This book helps navigate the difficult and treacherous decision making process in a structured manner. For someone who is looking at engineering a modern system or breaking a monolith should definitely read this . This book is a gold mine for you. For practitioners who are already in the process of figuring out how to break monoliths this book may give you structure to cover your bases and present your arguments. Its a good read for you . Be warned though that the reading speed will increase several fold somewhere 25-30% into the book as you start to encounter concepts you are already dealing with. ACID vs BASE or SYNC vs ASYNC etc., Overall a good book and an easy recommend Review: Covers in depth - One of the best book on the topic I have read. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 723 Reviews | ## Images ![Software Architecture: The Hard Parts: Modern Tradeoff Analysis - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81sdcxLtlwL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Brings structure to solving hard problems *by V***C on 1 September 2022* The book is a must read for all who aspire to build modern systems. Microservices or otherwise. No one builds all-in-one super systems. The question is always whether to go full blown microservices or a compromise solution that's neither a monolith or a microservice. Microservices is definitely not a low cost architecture thats easy to recommend. The answer is always "it depends". This book helps navigate the difficult and treacherous decision making process in a structured manner. For someone who is looking at engineering a modern system or breaking a monolith should definitely read this . This book is a gold mine for you. For practitioners who are already in the process of figuring out how to break monoliths this book may give you structure to cover your bases and present your arguments. Its a good read for you . Be warned though that the reading speed will increase several fold somewhere 25-30% into the book as you start to encounter concepts you are already dealing with. ACID vs BASE or SYNC vs ASYNC etc., Overall a good book and an easy recommend ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Covers in depth *by A***H on 21 August 2025* One of the best book on the topic I have read. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A practical book on software architecture *by A***A on 14 July 2022* A practical book on software architecture. Highlights decision trade offs in distributed service based software architecture. 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