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Microservices Saga Pattern
Saga Overview The saga pattern attempts to coordinate or manage the notion of transactional consistency across multiple services when a transaction is…
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Claim-Check Pattern: When To Split a Large Message Into a Claim-Check and a Payload
The Claim-Check approach is an architectural pattern for creating additional capacity for a message bus by persisting the entire payload into an external…
Architecture
Event Sourcing Microservices Pattern
Event Sourcing Overview
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Microservices Architecture Gateway Pattern - Dos and Don'ts
Gateway Pattern Relationships and Other Names
Architecture
What are Microservices?
Microservices Architecture (aka Microservice Architecture) is an architectural approach emerging from service-oriented architecture. Sometimes called just…
Architecture
Microservice Aggregator Pattern
Aggregator Pattern Overview
Architecture
Ambassador Pattern: Description and Advice on Usage
Relationship to Sidecar and Sidecar Overview The Ambassador pattern is a special case of the sidecar pattern. As such, it maintains most of the description,…
Architecture
Microservice vs Monolith...that is the Question
There seems to be a growing movement online fighting against microservices. The movement itself shouldn’t alarm anyone, such backlash is common with the…
Architecture
AKF Availability Cube
The AKF Availability Cube is a model to guide discussions on how to achieve high availability, as well as a tool to evaluate the theoretical "as designed"…
Architecture
Backend for Frontend (BFF) Pattern: The Dos and Don’ts of the BFF Pattern
Backend for Frontend Overview In the Backend for Frontend pattern, a service (“the backend”) serves as a termination point for a requesting interface (“the…
Architecture
Architecture Principles: Messaging Systems – Smart End Points, Dumb Pipes
Asynchronous messaging systems are a critical component of many highly scalable and highly available architectures. But, as with any other architectural…
Architecture
Implementing Scalable, Highly Available Messaging Services
When AKF Partners uses the term asynchronous, we use it in the logical rather than the physical (transport mechanism) sense. Solutions that communicate…