1. Introduction
  3. 0. Chapter 0 - Zero
  4. Why
  5. Rationale
  7. 1. Chapter 1 - Philosophy
  8. Why
  9. Crystal Ball
  10. Defensive Programming
  11. Doing Hard Things
  12. Frontend vs Backend
  13. Open Source First
  14. Service Orientation
  15. Protect Your Time
  17. 2. Chapter 2 - Anti-Patterns
  18. Why
  19. Tech Debt Plague
  20. Ignore Culture
  21. Stagnation
  22. Requirements
  24. 3. Chapter 3 - Dilemmas
  25. Why
  26. Discovery vs Delivery
  27. Move Fast vs Do It Right
  28. Build vs Buy
  29. Decide or Wait
  31. 4. Chapter 4 - Properties
  32. Why
  33. Anti-Fragility
  34. State of the Art
  35. Scalability
  36. Observability
  37. Stability
  38. Secure
  40. 5. Chapter 5 - Practices
  41. Why
  42. Attention to Detail
  43. Architecture Review
  44. Design First
  45. Ownership
  46. Reading Code
  47. Monthly Review
  48. Working in the Trenches
  50. 6. Chapter 6 - Concepts
  51. Why
  52. ACID
  53. Authentication & Authorization
  54. JWT
  55. BASE
  56. Idempotency
  57. Optimistic vs Pessimistic Locking
  58. Partition
  59. Schema Evolution
  60. Source of Truth
  61. Stateless vs Stateful Services
  63. 7. Chapter 7 - Patterns
  64. Why
  65. API Gateway
  66. BFF Pattern
  67. Cache
  68. Connection Pool
  69. Feature Flags
  70. Load Balancer
  71. Message Patterns
  72. Message ID
  73. Pagination
  74. Queue
  75. Retry
  76. Web Hook
  78. 8. Chapter 8 - Tools
  79. Why
  80. Diagramming Tools
  81. Writing Tools
  82. Thinking Tools
  84. 9. Chapter 9 - Epilogue
  85. Epilogue
  86. Resources
  87. How I Wrote The Book
  88. Changelog
  89. References
  90. Glossary
  91. Index