Software Mistakes and Tradeoffs: How to Make Good Programming Decisions

“I can saywith confidence that 100% of software developers ask themselves at least onequestion addressed in this book.” Nelson González

“The code examples are good enough that even if you don’t have experience with Java―you can still understand what the authors aretrying to convey.” John Henry Galino

“Tomasz Lelek and Jon Skeet are here to guide developers through the minefield of software engineering.” Gilles Lachelini

“Reading this book will make you wiser and turn youinto the Yoda of the Software Engineering biz!” Gregory Varghese

“If you need a book to learn how to think like a better programmer…then this is the book.” Alex Saez

“This book is vital for every developer, from beginner to advanced, to improve your code quality and resolve common problems.”Andres Sacco

“This book holds valuable information and tips every programmer should know before doing bigger software projects.” RobertTrausmuth

SoftwareMistakes 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 berelevant to software design.

You’ll understand the consequences of certain decisions, like how code duplication impacts the coupling and evolution speed of your systems and how simple-sounding requirements can have hidden nuances with respect to date andtime information. Discover how to efficiently narrow your optimization scope according to 80/20 Pareto principles and ensure consistency in your distributed systems. You’ll soon be able to apply the author’s hard-won experience to your own projects to pre-empt mistakes and take a more thoughtful approach to decision making.