Description

Understand what’s really happening behind your product

Software Architecture for Product Managers explains the technical foundations of modern digital products from scratch, without assuming any previous technical knowledge.

Throughout the book, you’ll follow Nomada, a fictional e-commerce product, and discover what happens behind apparently simple actions such as viewing a product, adding an item to the cart, or completing a purchase.

You’ll learn how frontend, backend, APIs, databases, caches, CDNs, queues, events, microservices, and cloud infrastructure work together—and, more importantly, why any of this should matter to you as a Product Manager.

After reading this book, you’ll understand

• How a request travels from the interface to the backend, database, and back to the user.
• Why systems use caches, CDNs, load balancers, queues, and events.
• What developers mean when they talk about latency, bottlenecks, scalability, or availability.
• The real differences between monoliths and microservices.
• Why apparently simple features can become technically complex.
• What technical debt and refactoring really mean for your roadmap.
• How logs, metrics, and traces help teams understand what is happening in production.
• Why systems fail—and how architectures are designed to handle those failures.

You don’t need to become a software architect

This book won’t teach you how to design infrastructure, configure databases, or write code.

That’s not the goal.

The goal is to give you enough technical understanding to ask better questions, participate confidently in technical conversations, understand the trade-offs behind Engineering decisions, and make better product decisions.

Because you don’t need to build the architecture to understand why it matters.

Paperback · €11.90 · Available on Amazon