Audiobooks by Neal Ford

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Fundamentals of Software Architecture: A Modern Engineering Approach (2nd Edition)

Salary surveys worldwide regularly place software architect in the top ten best jobs, yet no real guide exists to help developers become architects. Until now. This updated edition provides a comprehensive overview of software architecture's many aspects, with five new chapters covering the latest insights from the field. Aspiring and existing architects alike will examine architectural characteristics, architectural patterns, component determination, diagramming architecture, governance, data, generative AI, team topologies, and many other topics. This book examines: ● Architecture styles and patterns: Microservices, modular monoliths, microkernels, layered architectures, and many more ● Components: Identification, coupling, cohesion, partitioning, and granularity ● Soft skills: Effective team management, collaboration, business engagement models, negotiation, presentations, and more ● Modernity: Engineering practices and operational approaches that have changed radically in the past few years, including cloud considerations and generative AI ● Architecture as an engineering discipline: Repeatable results, metrics, and concrete valuations that add rigor to software architecture

Mark Richards, Neal Ford (Author), Perry Daniels (Narrator)

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

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.

Mark Richards, Neal Ford, Pramod Sadalage, Zhamak Dehghani (Author), Dena Dahilig (Narrator)

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Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach: Newly adapted for audiobook listener

Salary surveys worldwide regularly place software architect in the top 10 best jobs, yet no real guide exists to help developers become architects. Until now. This book provides the first comprehensive overview of software architecture's many aspects. Aspiring and existing architects alike will examine architectural characteristics, architectural patterns, component determination, diagramming and presenting architecture, evolutionary architecture, and many other topics. Mark Richards and Neal Ford-hands-on practitioners who have taught software architecture classes professionally for years-focus on architecture principles that apply across all technology stacks. You'll explore software architecture in a modern light, taking into account all the innovations of the past decade. This book examines: Architecture patterns: The technical basis for many architectural decisions Components: Identification, coupling, cohesion, partitioning, and granularity Soft skills: Effective team management, meetings, negotiation, presentations, and more Modernity: Engineering practices and operational approaches that have changed radically in the past few years Architecture as an engineering discipline: Repeatable results, metrics, and concrete valuations that add rigor to software architecture

Mark Richards, Neal Ford (Author), Benjamin Lange (Narrator)

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