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Aug 8, 2026 · Fundamentals
Why Software Architecture Is Hard: 8 Core Trade-offs from 'The Hard Parts'
This article reviews 'Software Architecture: The Hard Parts', highlighting eight key architectural challenges including trade-offs, data-architecture tensions, service granularity, database decomposition, distributed data access, contract design, code reuse, and error handling in distributed systems.
contract designdatabase decompositiondistributed systems
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