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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

Checking regional health

At this point we can justify why we run our serverless systems in multiple regions and we appreciate that we have been preparing for this all along. However, before we go any further, we need to know how to check the health of the cloud regions we are using, because it doesn't help to run in multiple regions if we cannot identify when it is time to failover from an unhealthy region.Like so many other things, serverless is different when it comes to health checks. At first glance this may seem like a familiar exercise, but regional health checks are different from traditional health checks. They have a lot in common, but regional health checks work at a higher order. Let's review how traditional health checks work and then use that as juxtaposition for our regional health checks.

Traditional health checks

In a traditional, non-serverless system we need to run clusters of machine instances across multiple availability zones, and we place a load balancer...