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Software Architecture with C++

By : Adrian Ostrowski, Piotr Gaczkowski
Book Image

Software Architecture with C++

By: Adrian Ostrowski, Piotr Gaczkowski

Overview of this book

Software architecture refers to the high-level design of complex applications. It is evolving just like the languages we use, but there are architectural concepts and patterns that you can learn to write high-performance apps in a high-level language without sacrificing readability and maintainability. If you're working with modern C++, this practical guide will help you put your knowledge to work and design distributed, large-scale apps. You'll start by getting up to speed with architectural concepts, including established patterns and rising trends, then move on to understanding what software architecture actually is and start exploring its components. Next, you'll discover the design concepts involved in application architecture and the patterns in software development, before going on to learn how to build, package, integrate, and deploy your components. In the concluding chapters, you'll explore different architectural qualities, such as maintainability, reusability, testability, performance, scalability, and security. Finally, you will get an overview of distributed systems, such as service-oriented architecture, microservices, and cloud-native, and understand how to apply them in application development. By the end of this book, you'll be able to build distributed services using modern C++ and associated tools to deliver solutions as per your clients' requirements.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
1
Section 1: Concepts and Components of Software Architecture
5
Section 2: The Design and Development of C++ Software
6
Architectural and System Design
10
Section 3: Architectural Quality Attributes
15
Section 4: Cloud-Native Design Principles
21
About Packt

Process isolation and sandboxing

If you want to run unverified software in your own environment, you may want to isolate it from the rest of your system. Some ways to sandbox the executed code is via VMs, containers, or micro VMs such as Firecracker (https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/) used by AWS Lambda.

This way, the crashes, leaks, and security problems of one application won't propagate to the entire system, rendering it either useless or compromised. As each process will have its own sandbox, the worst-case scenario would be the loss of only this one service.

For C and C++ code, there is also Sandboxed API (SAPI; https://github.com/google/sandboxed-api) an open source project led by Google. It allows building sandboxes not for entire processes but for libraries. It is used by Google's own Chrome and Chromium web browsers, among others.

Even though VMs and containers can be a part of the process isolation strategy, don't confuse them with microservices, which...