Chapter 3. Designing Software for a Scalable Enterprise
Looking back at the lessons learned alongside the latest developments in software, the most pressing question becomes: how do developers and architects design software for enterprises that need to scale more quickly? With clouds and containers serving as the new foundation, and more and more applications adopting microservices architecture, everything we knew about software design seems to be turned on its head.
With that said, the basic concepts of software architecture and design that were developed to cater to a multitude of stakeholders, follow separation of concern principles, generate quality, and guarantee the conceptual integrity of our applications remain the primary drivers for creating great software. And yet we do need to pay close attention to some of the principles we already know and choose the correct approach.
Microservices remain an ever-present buzzword and viable design pattern, yet upon closer inspection the name represents a new term for a style of architecture that has been around a while: modular design. Microservices are the right choice if you have a system that is too complex to be handled as a monolith. And this is exactly what makes this architectural style a valid choice for enterprise applications. As Martin Fowler states in his article about “MicroservicePremium”:
The fulcrum of whether or not to use microservices is the complexity of the system you’re contemplating.
This quote is perfectly ...
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