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Node.js Design Patterns

You're reading from   Node.js Design Patterns Master a series of patterns and techniques to create modular, scalable, and efficient applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783287314
Length 454 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Decomposing complex applications


So far in the chapter, we have mainly focused our analysis on the X axis of the scale cube. We saw how it represents the easiest and most immediate way to distribute the load of an application, also improving its availability. In the following section, we are now going to focus on the Y axis of the scale cube, where applications are scaled by decomposing them by functionality and service. As we will learn, this technique allows to scale not only the capacity of an application, but also, and most importantly, its complexity.

Monolithic architecture

The term monolithic might make us think of a system without modularity, where all the services of an application are interconnected together and almost indistinguishable. However, this is not always the case. Often, monolithic systems have a highly modular architecture and a good decoupling between their internal components.

A perfect example is the Linux Operating System kernel, which is part of a category called...

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