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Architecture Styles
Monoliths, microservices, serverless, and when each one wins.
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Chapter One
Monolith — Not a Dirty Word
When the Simplest Architecture Is the Right One
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Monolith — Not a Dirty Word
This chapter rehabilitates the monolith as a valid architectural choice, covering modular variants and why most systems should start here.
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Chapter Two
Microservices — The Full Picture
The Benefits Are Real, But So Are the Costs
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Microservices — The Full Picture
This chapter gives an honest view of microservices: the real benefits, the full cost, and how to migrate from a monolith using the strangler fig pattern.
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Chapter Three
Serverless
Functions as the Unit of Deployment
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Serverless
This chapter covers the serverless execution model, cold start, and the workloads where serverless provides genuine operational simplicity.
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Chapter Four
Service Mesh
Infrastructure for Microservice Communication
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Service Mesh
This chapter covers service mesh architecture, the sidecar proxy pattern, Istio and Linkerd, and when this layer is worth its operational complexity.
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Chapter Five
Edge Computing
Computation at the Network Boundary
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Edge Computing
This chapter covers edge computing for web applications and IoT, covering CDN edge functions and when moving compute to the network boundary wins.
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