Software Architecture: The Hard Parts
Modern Trade-Off Analyses for Distributed Architectures

In Software Architecture: The Hard Parts, Neal Ford, Mark Richards, Pramod Sadalage, and Zhamak Dehghani discuss strategies for choosing an appropriate architecture. The authors 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.