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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

AWS ECS

Before Kubernetes released its 1.0 version, Amazon Web Services proposed its own container orchestration technology called Elastic Container Service (ECS). ECS provides an orchestrator that monitors, scales, and restarts your services when needed.

To run containers in ECS, you need to provide the EC2 instances on which the workload will run. You are not billed for the orchestrator's use, but you are billed for all the AWS services that you typically use (the underlying EC2 instances, for example, or an RDS database).

One of the significant benefits of ECS is its excellent integration with the rest of the AWS ecosystem. If you are already familiar with AWS services and invested in the platform, you will have less trouble understanding and managing ECS.

If you do not require many of the Kubernetes advanced features and its extensions, ECS may be a better choice as it's more straightforward and more comfortable to learn.