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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)

Motivation for development of web application patterns

Most of the web applications are highly interactive in nature. This means that when there is a change to the data, it should be reflected in the UI instantaneously without any further delay. To add on to this scenario, different users of the application may demand outputs in various formats like excel sheets, bar charts, pie charts, dashboards, and so on, as depicted in the following diagram:

When there is a change in the functionality of a specific application, the user interface of the application should also be able to reflect the changes with the addition of new options like menus, dropdowns, and so on. This emphasizes the fact that user interfaces of web applications are always subjected to series of change requests. These user interfaces (UIs) change requests can happen in various circumstances, as follows:

  • A request...