From Modular Monoliths and Microservices to Event-Driven Pipelines, Serverless Edge, and Hexagonal Clean Architecture. Understand the trade-offs, boundaries, and failure modes.
Loosely coupled, independently deployable bounded-context services
An architectural style that structures an application as a collection of services that are highly maintainable, testable, loosely coupled, independently deployable, and organized around business capabilities.
Browsers and native mobile devices initiating user actions.
Handles authentication, rate limiting, SSL termination, and request routing.
Issues JWTs, handles OAuth 2.0, manages user identity.
Processes checkouts, manages shopping carts, calculates taxes.
Integrates with Stripe, manages fraud detection and settlements.
Dedicated PostgreSQL database per microservice.
Asynchronous publish-subscribe event backbone for decoupling.