21 Software Design Tradeoffs Every Senior Developer/Software Architect Should Know

If you are a Software Engineer, Senior Developer, Tech Lead or Software architect, these tradeoff will help you keep balance and design better system.

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Now, let’s start with a crucial topic, tradeoffs, which is very important in Software Engineering and System Design.

if you've designed distributed systems and software, you may know that Software design is about making crucial decisions to balance various trade-offs, which determine a system's functionality, performance, and maintainability.

Understanding these trade-offs when building or scaling a system helps engineers and architects make informed choices that align with business and technical requirements.

Here is a quick note of all the tradeoffs we are going to discus in this article.

21 Software Design Tradeoffs for Experienced Developers and Software Architects

In the past, I have talked about common system design questions like API Gateway vs Load Balancer and Horizontal vs Vertical Scaling, Forward proxy vs reverse proxy as well common System Design problems and in this article we will explore the 21 critical system design trade-offs that every tech professional should know.