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Software Architecture Patterns for Serverless Systems - Second Edition

By : John Gilbert
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Software Architecture Patterns for Serverless Systems - Second Edition

By: John Gilbert

Overview of this book

Organizations undergoing digital transformation rely on IT professionals to design systems to keep up with the rate of change while maintaining stability. With this edition, enriched with more real-world examples, you’ll be perfectly equipped to architect the future for unparalleled innovation. This book guides through the architectural patterns that power enterprise-grade software systems while exploring key architectural elements (such as events-driven microservices, and micro frontends) and learning how to implement anti-fragile systems. First, you'll divide up a system and define boundaries so that your teams can work autonomously and accelerate innovation. You'll cover the low-level event and data patterns that support the entire architecture while getting up and running with the different autonomous service design patterns. This edition is tailored with several new topics on security, observability, and multi-regional deployment. It focuses on best practices for security, reliability, testability, observability, and performance. You'll be exploring the methodologies of continuous experimentation, deployment, and delivery before delving into some final thoughts on how to start making progress. By the end of this book, you'll be able to architect your own event-driven, serverless systems that are ready to adapt and change.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Index

Dissecting integration styles

Our software systems are composed of many features that must work together to deliver value for the end users. How these features communicate has been one of the most significant topics in our industry. The communication pathways within a system impact the timely flow of information, but they also impact our ability to deliver timely solutions. A highly integrated system will maximize the flow of information. However, if we integrate features too tightly, then it impedes our ability to adapt to changing requirements. It can even put the stability of a system at risk as we make changes.

Our architecture must balance these opposing concerns. Let’s survey the different integration styles to see how they impact our systems, so we can take the best parts from each and bring them together in our new architecture.

Batch integration

When I started my career in software development, the major pain point for the industry was information silos...