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Cloud Application Architecture Patterns
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Cloud Application Architecture Patterns

by Kyle Brown, Bobby Woolf, Joseph Yoder
April 2025
Intermediate to advanced
650 pages
20h 7m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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List of Patterns

Adapter Microservice How can the application take advantage of existing functionality without abandoning the microservices approach?

Aggregate How do you tie together the groups of tightly related concepts and the values that belong within them in a subdomain?

Anti-Corruption Layer How can we design the system so that the Bounded Contexts (BCs) can interact without being tightly coupled together?

Application Database How should a cloud-native application store the data it uses so that it can run as a stateless application?

Application Package What features of a computer language ecosystem are required to implement a Cloud Application?

Backend Service How can multiple applications share the same reusable functionality?

Big Ball of Mud What is the simplest possible architecture for an application that helps get something working quickly to get needed feedback?

Bounded Context How do you clearly define the logical boundaries (edges) of a domain and subdomain(s) where particular terms and rules apply?

Browser Application What is the easiest, most universal Client Application for any user that does not assume a specific hardware or software configuration?

Client Application How can an end user take advantage of the services provided by an application running in the cloud?

Cloud Application How can I build applications to take the maximum advantage of all the features of the cloud for the best future proofing and agility?

Cloud Database How should a cloud-native application ...

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