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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

Orchestration-based sagas

In this case, we'll need a message broker to handle communication between our services, and an orchestrator that would coordinate the saga. Our order service would send a request to the orchestrator, which would then send commands to both the supply and payment services. Each of those would then do their part and send replies back to the orchestrator, through a reply channel available at the broker.

In this scenario, the orchestrator has all the logic needed to, well, orchestrate the transaction, and the services themselves don't need to be aware of any other services taking part in the saga.

If the orchestrator is sent a message that one of the services failed, for example, if the credit card has expired, it would then need to start the rollback. In our case, it would again use the broker to send an appropriate rollback command to specific services.

Okay, that's enough about eventual consistency for now. Let's now switch to other topics related...