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Architectural Patterns

By : Anupama Murali, Harihara Subramanian J, Pethuru Raj Chelliah
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Architectural Patterns

By: Anupama Murali, Harihara Subramanian J, Pethuru Raj Chelliah

Overview of this book

Enterprise Architecture (EA) is typically an aggregate of the business, application, data, and infrastructure architectures of any forward-looking enterprise. Due to constant changes and rising complexities in the business and technology landscapes, producing sophisticated architectures is on the rise. Architectural patterns are gaining a lot of attention these days. The book is divided in three modules. You'll learn about the patterns associated with object-oriented, component-based, client-server, and cloud architectures. The second module covers Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) patterns and how they are architected using various tools and patterns. You will come across patterns for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Event-Driven Architecture (EDA), Resource-Oriented Architecture (ROA), big data analytics architecture, and Microservices Architecture (MSA). The final module talks about advanced topics such as Docker containers, high performance, and reliable application architectures. The key takeaways include understanding what architectures are, why they're used, and how and where architecture, design, and integration patterns are being leveraged to build better and bigger systems.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Traditional application architecture versus cloud application architecture

As articulated previously, we are heading towards SDCEs that comprise software-defined compute (SDC), software-defined storage (SDS), and software-defined networking (SDN). The virtualization and containerization enable software-defined clouds towards workload-aware and elastic infrastructures. The maneuverability or programmability, consumability, accessibility, sustainability, and simplicity of software-defined clouds are greater compared to the inflexible infrastructures. There are new patterns (architecture and design) being introduced for cloud infrastructures and applications. The emergence of the cloud idea has brought in telling impacts on the application architectures. In this section, we will discuss how cloud application architectures differ from the legacy application architectures.

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