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Message- and Event-Driven Systems with CQRS and Event Sourcing: Web and Cloud Architecture
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Message- and Event-Driven Systems with CQRS and Event Sourcing: Web and Cloud Architecture

by Alex Lawrence
August 2026
308 pages
12h 3m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 3. In-Context Architectures

Software architecture is a broad discipline that can target different levels. System architecture, or macro architecture, focuses on the overall structure of a system and the interaction between its parts. Most of the technical topics described in Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 are primarily about system design. On a lower level, there is the concept of service architecture, which is concerned with the structure of individual parts. More precisely, as its name suggests, the main focus is the runtime view. Yet, there are many constellations where the runtime layout of a system does not align with its architectural boundaries.

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