August 2026
Intermediate to advanced
450 pages
5h 12m
English
book
Software Architecture Patterns, Antipatterns, and Pitfalls
by Mark Richards, Neal Ford, Raju Gandhi
Content preview from Software Architecture Patterns, Antipatterns, and Pitfalls
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Chapter 16. Stamp Coupling Antipattern
When services communicate with one another they must agree on what kind of data to pass back and forth between them—in other words, their contract. A contract specifies what attributes (data) are sent to message consumers, and in some cases the data types for each attribute. This chapter describes how certain practices in creating contracts between services or systems can lead to the Stamp Coupling antipattern.
Because this chapter is dealing with an antipattern, the “Improved” and “Degraded” metadata categories in Table 16-1 refer to the characteristics that are correspondingly improved and degraded when adopting this antipattern.
| CATEGORY | METADATA |
|---|---|
CONTEXT: |
Contracts, Event-Driven Architecture, Message-Based Architectures, Microservices |
IMPROVED: |
Adaptability, Elasticity, Evolvability, Simplicity |
DEGRADED: |
Bandwidth Usage |
How Specific Should My Contract Be?
Architects are faced with ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.