Technical Building Blocks: A Technology Reference for Real-world Product Development

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G. Sagar, V. SyrovatskyiTechnical Building Blockshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8658-6_3

3. System Design: Architecting Robust, Scalable, and Modular Applications

Gaurav Sagar¹   and Vitalii Syrovatskyi²

(1)

Bellevue, WA, USA

(2)

Issaquah, WA, USA

 

In this chapter we will talk about how the modern software applications are built and what problems they are solving and optimized for. The biggest and most complicated solutions are naturally built by the leading companies in the industry (Amazon, Google, Facebook, and others), since they need to solve large problems which are demanded by their business.

Monolithic Applications

Let’s imagine we want to build a product, ...