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10 - Application Level Patterns

Learning Objectives:

In this module, you will learn to:

• describe the basic ideas of the following architectures, with examples and pictures:
  • anarchic
  • layered
  • pipeline
  • event-driven
  • microkernel
  • microservice
• describe the main features of the following communication modalities:
  • procedure calls
  • HTTP and REST
  • Websockets

Lecture Slides:

• Application Level Patterns Slides PDF, PPT

Important Dates:

• Preliminary Project Plan Due Wednesday, Oct 8 by 12pm (noon)

Activities

• Activity: OpenAPI Specs

Resources

• Online book chapter: “Thinking Like a Software Architect” by Christian Kästner
• Podcast: “Chris Richardson on Microservice Patterns” - SE Radio
• Counterpoint podcast: “Roberta Arcoverde on Stack Overflow’s Monolith”
• On NFS: “Operating Systems, Three Easy Pieces” Chapter 49 by Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau and Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau
• “What is a REST API?”
• Socket.io - a library for real-time web applications