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Software Architecture: the practical fieldbook

Monoliths, microservices, Kafka and real-world design decisions. Follow marketplace, ticketing, school and logistics scenarios through practical tradeoffs.

84 pages · 24 chapters

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Layered and modular monoliths, ports and adapters
Service boundaries, APIs and data ownership
Kafka partitions, consumer groups, replay and delivery guarantees
Outbox, idempotency, sagas, CQRS and event sourcing
Security, observability, testing, deployment and migration
Design exercises, worked answers and a tested Python/SQLite lab

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