Cloud Native Development Patterns and Best Practices

Example – Worker BFF

As an aggregate domain entity moves through its life cycle, users with different roles and skillsets will need to perform work in relation to an entity as part of a larger business process. This work often involves the use of a specialized user experience and work often dictates a specific device form factor: phone, tablet, or desktop. These are usually standalone, task-oriented applications. Examples include fieldwork, such as truck roll and sales calls; warehouse tasks, such as order fulfillment; or team activities, such as reviewing and contributing to content.

As depicted in the following figure, a Worker BFF component consists of all three APIs in the Trilateral API pattern. A Worker BFF has an asynchronous API to ...