3.Exploring Modern Architecture Patterns: Event-Driven, Microservices, Fan-Out ,Schedule & Serverless-Based Solutions
Lets a have look at the Overview ,Key features and Real time usecase of Modern Architectures..
Here’s a simple overview of the mentioned architectures, along with their key features and real-time examples:
1. Event-Driven Architecture
Overview:
An architecture where actions are triggered by events.
It is highly responsive, enabling systems to react to changes or user activities in real time.
Key Features:
Decoupled components communicate through events.
Real-time processing.
High scalability and flexibility.
Event brokers (like AWS SNS or Kafka) play a central role.
Real-Time Example:
E-commerce platforms like Amazon trigger an event when an item is added to the cart, updating inventory systems and generating personalized recommendations.
2. Microservices Architecture
Overview:
A design approach where a system is broken into small, independent services that can be developed, deployed, and scaled individually.
Key Features:
Decentralized and loosely coupled.
Services communicate via APIs.
Technology-agnostic: different services can use different languages.
Scalable and fault-tolerant.
Real-Time Example:
Netflix uses microservices to manage different functionalities, such as user profiles, video streaming, and recommendations.
Each service operates independently.
3. Fan-Out Architecture
Overview:
A messaging pattern where a single message is sent to multiple recipients or consumers simultaneously.
Key Features:
High throughput for parallel processing.
Utilizes messaging systems like AWS SNS, RabbitMQ, or Google Pub/Sub.
Ensures messages are delivered to multiple downstream systems.
Real-Time Example:
In a social media platform, when a user posts an update, the system “fans out” the message to all their followers for feed updates.
4. Schedule-Based Architecture
Overview:
An architecture designed around scheduled tasks or jobs that execute at predefined intervals.
Key Features:
Time-driven automation.
Relies on schedulers like AWS CloudWatch Events, Cron jobs, or Task Scheduler.
Useful for batch processing or maintenance tasks.
Real-Time Example:
A backup service that runs every midnight to archive database snapshots to AWS S3 is a schedule-based architecture.
5.Serverless Architecture
Overview:
Serverless architecture allows developers to build and run applications without managing the underlying infrastructure.
Cloud providers handle server provisioning, scaling, and maintenance, enabling developers to focus solely on writing code.
Key Features:
No Server Management: The cloud provider manages the infrastructure.
Automatic Scaling: Dynamically adjusts resources based on demand.
Pay-as-You-Go: Charges only for the actual usage (e.g., execution time and memory).
Event-Driven Execution: Functions are triggered by events (e.g., HTTP requests, file uploads).
High Availability: Built-in redundancy ensures reliability.
Real-Time Use Case:
Web Application Backend: Using AWS Lambda to handle user authentication, API calls, and database operations for a lightweight, scalable web application.
Final Summary:
These architecture patterns provide the foundation for building scalable, efficient, and reliable systems, tailored to specific business needs.
Venkat C S
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Myself Venkat! I have been working as Cloud & Devops engineer for past 3+ years with strong foundation in AWS Cloud and Devops practice 3x AWS Certified & 1x Azure Certified My area of expertise includes Cloud=AWS & Azure Version Control=Git & GitHub Container=Docker Container Orchestration= Kubernetes OS= Linux & Windows Monitoring Tools=Zabbix ,PRTG ,Grafana ,Loki Firewall= Sonicwalls,Sophos