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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

Securing Autonomous Subsystems in Depth

In Chapter 9, Running in Multiple Regions, we covered how we can use cloud regions as another bulkhead to protect our systems from cloud provider disruptions. Running in multiple regions also improves performance for geographically dispersed users and provides a safety net that teams can leverage for regional canary deployments.

Now we turn our attention to securing our autonomous subsystems and services. Security itself is a kind of bulkhead against outside intruders. We will use cloud accounts as a bulkhead between autonomous subsystems and secure them and our CI/CD pipelines against attacks. We will learn how to secure the perimeter of the system along with the presentation and service tiers. We will also redact sensitive data and audit the system for compliance.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

  • Shared responsibility model
  • Securing cloud accounts
  • Securing CI/CD pipelines...