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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

Promoting inter-service collaboration

In Chapter 1, Architecting for Innovation, we saw that the role of architecture is to enable change so that teams can continuously experiment and uncover the best solutions for their users. We enable continuous change by defining fortified boundaries around things that change together so that we can control the scope and impact of any given change. The key to defining these boundaries is to understand the driving force behind change.In Chapter 2, Defining Boundaries and Letting Go, we found that people (that is, actors) are the driving force behind change. We identified a set of autonomous service patterns that support the different kinds of actors so that each service is responsible to a single actor. In this chapter, we dig into the details of the Control Service pattern.Control services work between the boundary (that is, Backend for Frontend (BFF) and External Service Gateway (ESG) services as mediators, to promote collaboration between the different...