Make Software Architecture Choices That Maximize Value and Innovation
"[Vernon and Jaskula] provide insights, tools, proven best practices, and architecture styles both from the business and engineering viewpoint. . . . This book deserves to become a must-read for practicing software engineers, executives as well as senior managers."
--Michael Stal, Certified Senior Software Architect, Siemens Technology
Strategic Monoliths and Microservices helps business decision-makers and technical team members clearly understand their strategic problems through collaboration and identify optimal architectural approaches, whether the approach is distributed microservices, well-modularized monoliths, or coarser-grained services partway between the two.
- Link software architecture planning to business innovation and digital transformation
- Overcome communication problems to promote experimentation and discovery-based innovation
- Master practices that support your value-generating goals and help you invest more strategically
- Compare architectural styles that can lead to versatile, adaptable applications and services
- Recognize when monoliths are your best option and how best to architect, design, and implement them
- Learn when to move monoliths to microservices and how to do it, whether they’re modularized or a "Big Ball of Mud"