Summary

In this chapter, you gained some background knowledge about software architecture and some of the widely used architectural patterns, including layered, pipeline, event-driven, service-based, and others. This chapter also provided you with a good understanding of the two most popular architectural patterns: SOA and microservices architecture and the differences between the two. You can apply this knowledge to design a good solution based on your use cases, confident that the architecture pattern you selected will be a good choice for a given problem.

In the next chapter, we will dive deep into microservices architectures and investigate different strategies to decompose a monolithic application. You will also learn about the different design patterns for developing robust microservices and how you can automate their deployment.