Introduction Software engineering architectures are structured frameworks that guide the design, organization, and construction of software systems. These architectures provide a blueprint for building software that is modular, maintainable, scalable, and adaptable. They offer solutions to common challenges faced during software development, such as managing complexity, separating concerns, and ensuring code…

The Industry Cloud Platform Paradigm Industry cloud platform is an emerging trend across industry verticals as they create value for organizations by offering packaged business capabilities, accelerate time to value & leverages the benefit from cross-industry innovations. Industry cloud platforms propel a cloud platform into a business platform. A platform creates value by facilitating exchanges…

Distributed Architecture / System A distributed system is a collection of independent components located on different machines that share messages with each other in order to achieve common goals. They run on multiple servers. The number of servers in a cluster can vary from as few as three servers to a few thousand servers. They manage data. So these are inherently ‘stateful’ systems Design Patterns in Distributed Architecture

Digital Transformation (DX) Introduction Digital transformation represents a strategic change for businesses. It focuses on rapidly changing core services to meet new demands, but there is no commonly accepted set of changes an organization must undertake to digitally transform. The term is sometimes used to mean adopting new architectures, like…

Choosing the right API format for an enterprise architecture is a big decision. …

Introduction One of the advantages of Microservices architecture is that it enables loose coupling between components / services. The deployment independence is important as it brings true agility and reduces communication overhead among different teams and services. General Guidelines Shared libraries make Microservices tightly coupled and introduce tight dependencies. When we make a…

API Design Best Practices Overview — “Approach API design from the ‘outside-in’ perspective. This means we start by asking — what are we trying to achieve with an API? “You have to get the design right, because design communicates how something will be used”. Nouns are good; verbs are bad Keep your base URL…

Tips for API-First Design Decide your objectives Understand your enterprise Infra Identify Integrations(Client types, Number of clients etc.) — Very important for scalability Understand Different Types — Edge, Utility & Domain APIs -According to InfoQ Design Focus points A. Resources, Requests, and Responses i. What resources you should include in your API ii. How…

Powerful APIs We are living in an API-centric world — it’s how we interact with that data. Gartner claimed we live in the API economy back in 2016, and since then, the world’s only become more data-driven. When companies have access to data and functions via APIs, it empowers them to make…