Software Architecture: The Hard Parts – Modern Trade-off Analysis for Distributed Architectures by Neal Ford, Mark Richard, Pramod Sadalage and Zhamak Dehghani
This is a good book about the hard architectural decisions that a team face when breaking a monolith into a micro-services architecture. It covers a lot of very interesting topics like architectural fitness functions and is full of lots of practical advice on how to weigh up the pro and cons. I’m not sure I’m the greatest fan of the storyline which follows a team as it splits up a support application from monolith to microservices, but all of the material that hangs off the chapters of this story is really good. The book covers everything from choice of database type to service granularity to the different types of transactional sagas to choices between choreography and orchestration. It’s a great read.
Thirty years tapping a keyboard 