Software Architect's Handbook

Summary

Cross-cutting concerns are an important part of a software application. In this chapter, you learned what cross-cutting concerns are and how to avoid scattering and tangling the solutions for cross-cutting concerns.

In this chapter, we learned how we can use DI, the decorator pattern, and AOP to implement cross-cutting concerns. This chapter provided some examples of common cross-cutting concerns, such as caching, configuration management, auditing, security, exception management, and logging. We also explored using a microservice chassis and/or the sidecar pattern when implementing cross-cutting concerns for microservices.

In the next chapter, we will take a look at the performance considerations that software architects make. We ...