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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

Enabling autonomous teams with autonomous services

As we have just seen, our ability to drive down lead times and iterate to innovative solutions is impeded by many forces. Lean methods and the cloud help us eliminate waste, but our software itself is an impediment to innovation. The complex dependencies within our systems necessitate inter-team communication and coordination, which consumes valuable time. The high coupling between components creates the risk of cascading failures when things go wrong. So, teams naturally slow down for fear of breaking things.

We need a new architectural vision. Our architecture must enable autonomous teams to move fast and limit the blast radius of honest mistakes. The following diagram depicts this architectural vision. Imagine a topology of autonomous services that we design for integration from the ground up:

Figure 1.5: Event-first topology of autonomous services and subsystems

Each autonomous service owns all the resources it...