Software Mistakes and Tradeoffs

In Software Mistakes and Tradeoffs you''ll learn from costly mistakes that Tomasz Lelek and Jon Skeet have encountered over their impressive careers. You''ll explore real-world scenarios where poor understanding of tradeoffs lead to major problems down the road, to help you make better design decisions. Plus, with a little practice, you''ll be able to avoid the pitfalls that trip up even the most experienced developers.

Software Mistakes and Tradeoffs teaches you how to make better decisions about designing, planning, and implementing applications. You''ll analyse real-world scenarios where the wrong tradeoff decisions were made, and discover what could have been done differently. The book lays out the pros and cons of different approaches and explores evergreen  patterns that will always be relevant to software design.

Code performance versus simplicity. Delivery speed versus duplication. Flexibility versus maintain ability—everydecision you make in software engineering involves balancing tradeoffs. Often, decisions that look good at the design stage can prove problematic in practice.This book reveals the questions you need to be asking to make the right decisions for your own software tradeoffs.

Optimize the decisions that define your code by exploring the common mistakes and intentional tradeoffs made by expert developers

In Software Mistakes and Tradeoffs youwill learn how to:

• Reason about your systems to make intuitive and better design decisions
• Understand consequences and how to balance tradeoffs
• Pick a proper library for your problem
• Thoroughly analyse all of your service''s dependencies
• Understand delivery semantics and how they influence distributed architecture
• Design and execute performance tests to detect code hot paths and validate a system''s SLA
• Optimize code hot paths to get the most improvement efficiently
• Understand tight/loose coupling and how it influences coordination of work between teams
• Clarify requirements until they are precise, easily implemented, and easily tested
• Optimize your APIs for friendly user experience

In Software Mistakes and Tradeoffs you''ll learn from costly mistakes that Tomasz Lelek and Jon Skeet have encountered over their impressive careers. You will explore real-world scenarios where poor understanding of tradeoffs lead to major problems down the road, to help you make better design decisions. Plus, with a little practice, you''ll be able to avoid the pitfalls that trip up even the most experienced developers.