Hands-On Software Engineering with Golang

System component modeling

As the first step in mapping the project's architecture, we will begin by creating a UML component diagram. The main goal here is to identify and describe the structural connections between the various components that comprise our system.

A component is defined as an encapsulated standalone unit that constitutes an integral part of a system or a sub-system. Components communicate with each other by exposing and consuming one or several interfaces. One key point of component-based design is that components should always be considered as abstract, logical entities that expose a particular behavior. This design approach is closely aligned with the SOLID principles and offers us the flexibility to freely change or even ...