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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 micro frontends

To achieve our goal of creating a software architecture that enables change, we need to give teams full control of the entire stack. As depicted in Figure 3.1, a single team should own a micro application, its BFF service, and the datastore. This reduces the need for inter-team communication, which adds dependencies on another team's schedule:

Figure 3.1 – Full-stack teams Figure 3.1: Full-stack teams

These self-sufficient, full-stack, autonomous teams are able to move at their own pace, minimize lead time, and respond to user feedback at will, precisely because they are not dependent on other teams. In Chapter 6, A Best Friend for the Frontend, we will see how teams implement BFF services, and in Chapter 5, Turning the Cloud into the Database, we will see how to decompose monolithic databases.In this section, we look at how to create a micro frontend. The objective of a micro frontend is to divide the user experience into a set of independent micro applications, while also providing...