We have detailed the prominent and dominant software architecture patterns and how they are distinctly foundational and fundamental for producing and running any kind of enterprise-class and production-grade software applications. To accommodate the evolution and revolutions and to surmount the complications due to constant changes happening in the business and technology spaces, the smart leverage of a variety of software patterns is being recommended as the way forward. Increasingly, to design and develop sophisticated and smarter applications, various architectural patterns are being meticulously chosen and cognitively clubbed together to produce composite patterns.
Besides this, there are several application and domain-specific architectures being formed, verified, and validated by worldwide researchers and presented as research contributions. Thus, the domain of architectural patterns is consistently on the growth in order to support and sustain the software engineering field. The forthcoming chapters will go deep and dig further to bring forth a lot of useful and usable details on design patterns for existing and fresh technologies. We have covered the emerging and evolving technologies such as Docker-enabled containerization, microservices architecture (MSA), big data analytics, reactive programming, high-performance computing (HPC), and so on.