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O'Reilly Online Training

Software Architecture by Example

Mark Richards
Independent Consultant
Hands-on Software Architect, Published Author
Founder, DeveloperToArchitect.com
http://www.wmrichards.com
@markrichardssa

Neal Ford
ThoughtWorks
Director / Software Architect / Meme Wrangler
http://www.nealford.com
@neal4d

v1
introduction
course agenda
 course references

https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/
software-architecture-fundamentals/
9781491998991/
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

An auction company wants to take their auctions online to a nationwide scale--customers choose the auction to
participate in, wait until the auction begins, then bid during the live auction as if they were there in the room,
with the auctioneer.
• Users: scale up to hundreds of participants (per auction), potentially up to thousands of participants, and as
many simultaneous auctions as possible
• Requirements:
◦ bidders can see a live video stream of the auction and see all bids as they occur
◦ auctions must be as real-time as possible
◦ both online and live bids must be received in the order in which they are placed
◦ bidders register with credit card; system automatically charges card if bidder wins
◦ participants must be tracked via a reputation index
• Additional Context:
◦ auction company is expanding aggressively by merging with smaller competitors
◦ if nationwide auction is a success, replicate the model overseas
◦ budget is not constrained--this is a strategic direction
◦ company just exited a lawsuit where they settled a suit alleging fraud
Your Architectural Kata is...

I’ll Have the BLT

A national sandwich shop wants to enable 'fax in your order' but over the Internet instead (in addition
to their current fax-in service)
• Users: thousands, perhaps one day millions
• Requirements:
◦ users will place their order, then be given a time to pick up their sandwich and directions to the
shop (which must integrate with several external mapping services that include traffic
information)
◦ if the shop offers a delivery service, dispatch the driver with the sandwich to the user
◦ mobile-device accessibility
◦ offer national daily promotions/specials
◦ offer local daily promotions/specials
◦ accept payment online or in person/on delivery
• Additional Context:
◦ Sandwich shops are franchised, each with a different owner.
◦ Parent company has near-future plans to expand overseas.
◦ Corporate goal is to hire inexpensive labor to maximize profit.
◦ Time to market is critical.

architect life
architect life
 architecture
characteristics
architecture characteristics
architecture characteristics

reliability

scalability

performance

availability
architecture characteristics
accessibility evolvability repeatability
accountability extensibility reproducibility
accuracy failure transparency resilience
adaptability fault-tolerance responsiveness
administrability fidelity reusability
affordability flexibility robustness
agility inspectability safety
auditability installability scalability
autonomy integrity seamlessness
availability interchangeability self-sustainability
compatibility interoperability serviceability
composability learnability supportability
configurability maintainability securability
correctness manageability simplicity
credibility mobility stability
customizability modifiability standards compliance
debugability modularity survivability
degradability operability sustainability
determinability orthogonality tailorability
demonstrability portability testability
dependability precision timeliness
deployability predictability traceability
discoverability process capabilities transparency
distributability producibility ubiquity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_system_quality_attributes
durability provability understandability
effectiveness recoverability upgradability
architecture characteristics
feasibility

agility

elasticity

scalability
 architecture katas
identifying driving characteristics
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

An auction company wants to take their auctions online to a nationwide scale--customers choose the auction to
participate in, wait until the auction begins, then bid during the live auction as if they were there in the room,
with the auctioneer.
• Users: scale up to hundreds of participants (per auction), potentially up to thousands of participants, and as
many simultaneous auctions as possible
• Requirements:
◦ bidders can see a live video stream of the auction and see all bids as they occur
◦ auctions must be as real-time as possible
◦ both online and live bids must be received in the order in which they are placed
◦ bidders register with credit card; system automatically charges card if bidder wins
◦ participants must be tracked via a reputation index
• Additional Context:
◦ auction company is expanding aggressively by merging with smaller competitors
◦ if nationwide auction is a success, replicate the model overseas
◦ budget is not constrained--this is a strategic direction
◦ company just exited a lawsuit where they settled a suit alleging fraud
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

?
An auction company wants to take their auctions online to a nationwide scale--customers choose the auction to
participate in, wait until the auction begins, then bid during the live auction as if they were there in the room,
with the auctioneer.
• Users: scale up to hundreds of participants (per auction), potentially up to thousands of participants, and as
many simultaneous auctions as possible
• Requirements:
◦ bidders can see a live video stream of the auction and see all bids as they occur
◦ auctions must be as real-time as possible
?
◦ both online and live bids must be received in the order in which they are placed
◦ bidders register with credit card; system automatically charges card if bidder wins
◦ participants must be tracked via a reputation index
• Additional Context:
◦ auction company is expanding aggressively by merging with smaller competitors
◦ if nationwide auction is a success, replicate the model overseas
◦ budget is not constrained--this is a strategic direction
◦ company just exited a lawsuit where they settled a suit alleging fraud
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

An auction company wants to take their auctions online to a nationwide scale--customers choose the auction to
participate in, wait until the auction begins, then bid during the live auction as if they were there in the room,
with the auctioneer.
• Users: scale up to hundreds of participants (per auction), potentially up to thousands of participants, and as
many simultaneous auctions as possible
• Requirements:
◦ bidders can see a live video stream of the auction and see all bids as they occur
◦ auctions must be as real-time as possible
◦ both online and live bids must be received in the order in which they are placed
◦ bidders register with credit card; system automatically charges card if bidder wins
◦ participants must be tracked via a reputation index
• Additional Context:
◦ auction company is expanding aggressively by merging with smaller competitors
◦ if nationwide auction is a success, replicate the model overseas
◦ budget is not constrained--this is a strategic direction
◦ company just exited a lawsuit where they settled a suit alleging fraud

availability reliability performance

Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

?
An auction company wants to take their auctions online to a nationwide scale--customers choose the auction to
participate in, wait until the auction begins, then bid during the live auction as if they were there in the room,
with the auctioneer. ?
• Users: scale up to hundreds of participants (per auction), potentially up to thousands of participants, and as
many simultaneous auctions as possible
• Requirements:
◦ bidders can see a live video stream of the auction and see all bids as they occur
◦ auctions must be as real-time as possible
◦ both online and live bids must be received in the order in which they are placed
◦ bidders register with credit card; system automatically charges card if bidder wins

?
◦ participants must be tracked via a reputation index
• Additional Context:
◦ auction company is expanding aggressively by merging with smaller competitors
◦ if nationwide auction is a success, replicate the model overseas
◦ budget is not constrained--this is a strategic direction
◦ company just exited a lawsuit where they settled a suit alleging fraud

availability reliability performance

Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

An auction company wants to take their auctions online to a nationwide scale--customers choose the auction to
participate in, wait until the auction begins, then bid during the live auction as if they were there in the room,
with the auctioneer.
• Users: scale up to hundreds of participants (per auction), potentially up to thousands of participants, and as
many simultaneous auctions as possible
• Requirements:
◦ bidders can see a live video stream of the auction and see all bids as they occur
◦ auctions must be as real-time as possible
◦ both online and live bids must be received in the order in which they are placed
◦ bidders register with credit card; system automatically charges card if bidder wins
◦ participants must be tracked via a reputation index
• Additional Context:
◦ auction company is expanding aggressively by merging with smaller competitors
◦ if nationwide auction is a success, replicate the model overseas
◦ budget is not constrained--this is a strategic direction
◦ company just exited a lawsuit where they settled a suit alleging fraud

availability reliability performance scalability

Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

An auction company wants to take their auctions online to a nationwide scale--customers choose the auction to
participate in, wait until the auction begins, then bid during the live auction as if they were there in the room,
with the auctioneer. ?
• Users: scale up to hundreds of participants (per auction), potentially up to thousands of participants, and as
many simultaneous auctions as possible
• Requirements:
◦ bidders can see a live video stream of the auction and see all bids as they occur
◦ auctions must be as real-time as possible
◦ both online and live bids must be received in the order in which they are placed
◦ bidders register with credit card; system automatically charges card if bidder wins
◦ participants must be tracked via a reputation index
• Additional Context:
◦ auction company is expanding aggressively by merging with smaller competitors
◦ if nationwide auction is a success, replicate the model overseas
◦ budget is not constrained--this is a strategic direction
◦ company just exited a lawsuit where they settled a suit alleging fraud

availability reliability performance scalability

Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

An auction company wants to take their auctions online to a nationwide scale--customers choose the auction to
participate in, wait until the auction begins, then bid during the live auction as if they were there in the room,
with the auctioneer.
• Users: scale up to hundreds of participants (per auction), potentially up to thousands of participants, and as
many simultaneous auctions as possible
• Requirements:
◦ bidders can see a live video stream of the auction and see all bids as they occur
◦ auctions must be as real-time as possible
◦ both online and live bids must be received in the order in which they are placed
◦ bidders register with credit card; system automatically charges card if bidder wins
◦ participants must be tracked via a reputation index
• Additional Context:
◦ auction company is expanding aggressively by merging with smaller competitors
◦ if nationwide auction is a success, replicate the model overseas
◦ budget is not constrained--this is a strategic direction
◦ company just exited a lawsuit where they settled a suit alleging fraud

availability reliability performance scalability elasticity

scalability:

users

time
elasticity:

users

time
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

An auction company wants to take their auctions online to a nationwide scale--customers choose the auction to
participate in, wait until the auction begins, then bid during the live auction as if they were there in the room,
with the auctioneer.
• Users: scale up to hundreds of participants (per auction), potentially up to thousands of participants, and as
many simultaneous auctions as possible
• Requirements:
◦ bidders can see a live video stream of the auction and see all bids as they occur
◦ auctions must be as real-time as possible
◦ both online and live bids must be received in the order in which they are placed
?
◦ bidders register with credit card; system automatically charges card if bidder wins
◦ participants must be tracked via a reputation index
• Additional Context:
◦ auction company is expanding aggressively by merging with smaller competitors
◦ if nationwide auction is a success, replicate the model overseas
◦ budget is not constrained--this is a strategic direction
◦ company just exited a lawsuit where they settled a suit alleging fraud

availability reliability performance scalability elasticity

Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

An auction company wants to take their auctions online to a nationwide scale--customers choose the auction to
participate in, wait until the auction begins, then bid during the live auction as if they were there in the room,
with the auctioneer.
• Users: scale up to hundreds of participants (per auction), potentially up to thousands of participants, and as
many simultaneous auctions as possible
• Requirements:
◦ bidders can see a live video stream of the auction and see all bids as they occur
◦ auctions must be as real-time as possible
◦ both online and live bids must be received in the order in which they are placed ?
◦ bidders register with credit card; system automatically charges card if bidder wins
◦ participants must be tracked via a reputation index
• Additional Context:
◦ auction company is expanding aggressively by merging with smaller competitors
◦ if nationwide auction is a success, replicate the model overseas
◦ budget is not constrained--this is a strategic direction
◦ company just exited a lawsuit where they settled a suit alleging fraud

availability reliability performance scalability elasticity

Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

An auction company wants to take their auctions online to a nationwide scale--customers choose the auction to
participate in, wait until the auction begins, then bid during the live auction as if they were there in the room,
with the auctioneer.
• Users: scale up to hundreds of participants (per auction), potentially up to thousands of participants, and as
many simultaneous auctions as possible
• Requirements:
◦ bidders can see a live video stream of the auction and see all bids as they occur
◦ auctions must be as real-time as possible
◦ both online and live bids must be received in the order in which they are placed
◦ bidders register with credit card; system automatically charges card if bidder wins
◦ participants must be tracked via a reputation index
• Additional Context:
◦ auction company is expanding aggressively by merging with smaller competitors
◦ if nationwide auction is a success, replicate the model overseas
◦ budget is not constrained--this is a strategic direction
◦ company just exited a lawsuit where they settled a suit alleging fraud

availability reliability performance scalability elasticity (security)

Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

An auction company wants to take their auctions online to a nationwide scale--customers choose the auction to
participate in, wait until the auction begins, then bid during the live auction as if they were there in the room,
with the auctioneer.
• Users: scale up to hundreds of participants (per auction), potentially up to thousands of participants, and as
many simultaneous auctions as possible
• Requirements:
◦ bidders can see a live video stream of the auction and see all bids as they occur
◦ auctions must be as real-time as possible
◦ both online and live bids must be received in the order in which they are placed
◦ bidders register with credit card; system automatically charges card if bidder wins
◦ participants must be tracked via a reputation index
• Additional Context:
◦ auction company is expanding aggressively by merging with smaller competitors
◦ if nationwide auction is a success, replicate the model overseas
◦ budget is not constrained--this is a strategic direction
◦ company just exited a lawsuit where they settled a suit alleging fraud

availability reliability performance scalability elasticity (security)

Your Architectural Kata is...

I’ll Have the BLT

A national sandwich shop wants to enable 'fax in your order' but over the Internet instead (in addition
to their current fax-in service)
• Users: thousands, perhaps one day millions
• Requirements:
◦ users will place their order, then be given a time to pick up their sandwich and directions to the
shop (which must integrate with several external mapping services that include traffic
information)
◦ if the shop offers a delivery service, dispatch the driver with the sandwich to the user
◦ mobile-device accessibility
◦ offer national daily promotions/specials
◦ offer local daily promotions/specials
◦ accept payment online or in person/on delivery
• Additional Context:
◦ Sandwich shops are franchised, each with a different owner.
◦ Parent company has near-future plans to expand overseas.
◦ Corporate goal is to hire inexpensive labor to maximize profit.
◦ Time to market is critical.

Your Architectural Kata is...

I’ll Have the BLT

A national sandwich shop wants to enable 'fax in your order' but over the Internet instead (in addition
to their current fax-in service)
• Users: thousands, perhaps one day millions
• Requirements:
◦ users will place their order, then be given a time to pick up their sandwich and directions to the
shop (which must integrate with several external mapping services that include traffic
information)
◦ if the shop offers a delivery service, dispatch the driver with the sandwich to the user
◦ mobile-device accessibility
◦ offer national daily promotions/specials performance availability reliability
◦ offer local daily promotions/specials
◦ accept payment online or in person/on delivery scalability elasticity i18n l10n
• Additional Context:
◦ Sandwich shops are franchised, each with a different owner.
◦ Parent company has near-future plans to expand overseas.
◦ Corporate goal is to hire inexpensive labor to maximize profit.
◦ Time to market is critical.

Your Architectural Kata is...

I’ll Have the BLT

A national sandwich shop wants to enable 'fax in your order' but over the Internet instead (in addition
to their current fax-in service)
• Users: thousands, perhaps one day millions
• Requirements:
◦ users will place their order, then be given a time to pick up their sandwich and directions to the
shop (which must integrate with several external mapping services that include traffic
information)
◦ if the shop offers a delivery service, dispatch the driver with the sandwich to the user
◦ mobile-device accessibility
◦ offer national daily promotions/specials performance availability reliability
◦ offer local daily promotions/specials
◦ accept payment online or in person/on delivery scalability elasticity i18n l10n
• Additional Context:
◦ Sandwich shops are franchised, each with a different owner. Global Local
◦ Parent company has near-future plans to expand overseas. Customizability Customizability
◦ Corporate goal is to hire inexpensive labor to maximize profit.
◦ Time to market is critical.

Your Architectural Kata is...

I’ll Have the BLT

A national sandwich shop wants to enable 'fax in your order' but over the Internet instead (in addition
to their current fax-in service)
• Users: thousands, perhaps one day millions
• Requirements:
◦ users will place their order, then be given a time to pick up their sandwich and directions to the
shop (which must integrate with several external mapping services that include traffic
information)
◦ if the shop offers a delivery service, dispatch the driver with the sandwich to the user
◦ mobile-device accessibility
◦ offer national daily promotions/specials performance availability reliability
◦ offer local daily promotions/specials

{
◦ accept payment online or in person/on delivery scalability elasticity
• Additional Context: location
◦ Sandwich shops are franchised, each with a different owner.
◦ Parent company has near-future plans to expand overseas. Customizability sales
◦ Corporate goal is to hire inexpensive labor to maximize profit. recipe
◦ Time to market is critical.

Your Architectural Kata is...

I’ll Have the BLT

A national sandwich shop wants to enable 'fax in your order' but over the Internet instead (in addition
to their current fax-in service)
• Users: thousands, perhaps one day millions
• Requirements:
◦ users will place their order, then be given a time to pick up their sandwich and directions to the
shop (which must integrate with several external mapping services that include traffic
information)
◦ if the shop offers a delivery service, dispatch the driver with the sandwich to the user
◦ mobile-device accessibility
◦ offer national daily promotions/specials performance availability reliability
◦ offer local daily promotions/specials

{
◦ accept payment online or in person/on delivery scalability elasticity
• Additional Context: location
◦ Sandwich shops are franchised, each with a different owner.
◦ Parent company has near-future plans to expand overseas. Customizability sales
◦ Corporate goal is to hire inexpensive labor to maximize profit. recipe
◦ Time to market is critical.

 building
evolutionary
architectures
 Evolutionary
Architecture
An evolutionary architecture supports
guided,
incremental change
across multiple dimensions.
 guided

architectural fitness function:

An architectural fitness function is any mechanism

that provides an objective integrity assessment of
some architectural characteristic(s).
 guided

architectural fitness function:

An architectural fitness function is any mechanism

that provides an objective integrity assessment of
some architectural characteristic(s).
 guided

architectural fitness function:

An architectural fitness function is any mechanism

that provides an objective integrity assessment of
some architectural characteristic(s).
maintainable?
Cyclomatic complexity < 50 for all projects

Naming conventions
Postel’s Law

maintainable?

(incoming/outgoing)
Controlled afferent/efferent coupling
ArchUnit
https://www.archunit.org/
ArchUnit
https://www.archunit.org/

coding rules
ArchUnit

interface rules
ArchUnit

layer dependency
ArchUnit

governance
Legality of Open Source Libraries

Penultima ︎e
Legality of Open Source Libraries

Penultima ︎e
Legality of Open Source Libraries

Penultima ︎e
Legality of Open Source Libraries

Penultima ︎e
Legality of Open Source Libraries

Penultima ︎e
component-
based
thinking
 component identification
as an architect, you should think about the artifacts
within the architecture in terms of components

component component
component:
building block of the application
well defined set of operations
component
well defined role and responsibility

component component
component identification
component scope

subsystem, layer, service, or event processor

component component component

class class class

class class class

 component identification

analyze roles and

responsibility
statements

identify assign user analyze

initial core stories to non-functional
components components aspects

refactor
components as
needed
 component identification
identify initial components using core functionality

place orders order placement

fulfill orders order fulfillment

ship orders order shipping

 component identification
assign requirements, use cases, or user
stories to a component

user story: check inventory order placement

order fulfillment

order shipping
 component identification
assign requirements, use cases, or user
stories to a component

user story: check inventory order placement

order fulfillment

order shipping
 component identification
assign requirements, use cases, or user
stories to a component

user story: check inventory order placement

user story: validate order order fulfillment

order shipping
 component identification
assign requirements, use cases, or user
stories to a component

user story: check inventory order placement

user story: validate order order fulfillment

order shipping
 component identification
assign requirements, use cases, or user
stories to a component

user story: check inventory order placement

user story: validate order order fulfillment

user story: notify customer order shipping

  of order status
 
 component identification
assign requirements, use cases, or user
stories to a component

user story: check inventory order placement

user story: validate order order fulfillment

user story: notify customer order shipping

  of order status
  customer notification
 component identification
component granularity

order manager

responsible for creating, deleting, and updating orders. also

responsible for shipping the order and tracking the order
once it has been shipped. this component is also responsible
for notifying the customer each time the order status
changes.
 component identification
component granularity

responsible for creating, deleting,

order maintenance
and updating orders.

responsible for shipping and

order shipment
tracking orders

responsible for notifying the customer

customer notification
when the order status changes.
 architecture katas
identifying major components
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

An auction company wants to take their auctions online to a nationwide scale--customers choose the auction to
participate in, wait until the auction begins, then bid during the live auction as if they were there in the room,
with the auctioneer.
• Users: scale up to hundreds of participants (per auction), potentially up to thousands of participants, and as
many simultaneous auctions as possible
• Requirements:
◦ bidders can see a live video stream of the auction and see all bids as they occur
◦ auctions must be as real-time as possible
◦ both online and live bids must be received in the order in which they are placed
◦ bidders register with credit card; system automatically charges card if bidder wins
◦ participants must be tracked via a reputation index
• Additional Context:
◦ auction company is expanding aggressively by merging with smaller competitors
◦ if nationwide auction is a success, replicate the model overseas
◦ budget is not constrained--this is a strategic direction
◦ company just exited a lawsuit where they settled a suit alleging fraud
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

the “entity trap”

auctions items bids

Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

the “entity trap”

auction
auctions
manager items bids

create aution
browse auctions
schedule auction
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

the “entity trap”

auction item
auctions
manager items
manager
bids

create aution create item

browse auctions display item
schedule auction upload image
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

the “entity trap”

auction item
auctions
manager items
manager
bid bids
manager

create aution create item place bids

browse auctions display item display bids
schedule auction upload image track bids
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

workflow approach
create auction find auction sign up watch auction place bid
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

workflow approach
create auction find auction sign up watch auction place bid

auction auction auction video bid

creator browser registration streamer capture
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

actor/action approach

bidder auctioneer system

Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

actor/action approach

bidder auctioneer system

view live video stream

view live bid stream
place a bid
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

actor/action approach

bidder auctioneer system

view live video stream enter live bids into system

view live bid stream receive online bid
place a bid mark item as sold
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

actor/action approach

bidder auctioneer system

view live video stream enter live bids into system start auction
view live bid stream receive online bid make payment
place a bid mark item as sold track bidder activity
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

view live video stream
view live bid stream
bidder place a bid

enter live bids into system

receive online bid
auctioneer mark item as sold

start auction
make payment
system track bidder activity
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

view live video stream
view live bid stream
bidder place a bid

enter live bids into system

receive online bid
auctioneer mark item as sold

start auction
make payment
system track bidder activity
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

view live video stream
view live bid stream
bidder place a bid

enter live bids into system

receive online bid
auctioneer mark item as sold
auction
start auction session
make payment
system track bidder activity
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

view live video stream
view live bid stream
bidder place a bid

enter live bids into system

receive online bid
auctioneer mark item as sold
auction
start auction session
make payment
system track bidder activity
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

view live video stream
view live bid stream
bidder place a bid

enter live bids into system

receive online bid
auctioneer mark item as sold
auction
start auction session
make payment
system track bidder activity bidder
tracker
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

view live video stream
view live bid stream
bidder place a bid

enter live bids into system

receive online bid
auctioneer mark item as sold
auction
start auction session
make payment
system track bidder activity bidder
tracker
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

video
streamer
view live video stream
view live bid stream
bidder place a bid

enter live bids into system

receive online bid
auctioneer mark item as sold
auction
start auction session
make payment
system track bidder activity bidder
tracker
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

video
streamer
view live video stream
view live bid stream
bidder place a bid

enter live bids into system

receive online bid
auctioneer mark item as sold
auction
start auction session
make payment
system track bidder activity bidder
tracker
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

video
streamer
view live video stream
view live bid stream bid
bidder place a bid streamer

enter live bids into system

receive online bid
auctioneer mark item as sold
auction
start auction session
make payment
system track bidder activity bidder
tracker
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

video
streamer
view live video stream
view live bid stream bid
bidder place a bid streamer

enter live bids into system

receive online bid
auctioneer mark item as sold
auction
start auction session
make payment
system track bidder activity bidder
tracker
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

video
streamer
view live video stream
view live bid stream bid
bidder place a bid streamer

enter live bids into system

receive online bid
bid
auctioneer mark item as sold capture

auction
start auction session
make payment
system track bidder activity bidder
tracker
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

video
streamer
view live video stream
view live bid stream bid
bidder place a bid streamer

enter live bids into system

receive online bid
bid
auctioneer mark item as sold capture

auction
start auction session
make payment
system track bidder activity bidder
tracker
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

video
streamer
view live video stream
view live bid stream bid
bidder place a bid streamer

enter live bids into system

receive online bid
bid
auctioneer mark item as sold capture

auction
start auction session
make payment
system track bidder activity bidder
tracker
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

video
streamer
view live video stream
view live bid stream bid
bidder place a bid streamer

enter live bids into system

receive online bid
bid
auctioneer mark item as sold capture

auction
start auction session
make payment
system track bidder activity bidder
tracker
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

video
streamer
view live video stream
view live bid stream bid
bidder place a bid streamer

enter live bids into system

receive online bid
bid
auctioneer mark item as sold capture

auction
start auction session
make payment
system track bidder activity bidder
tracker
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

video
streamer
view live video stream
view live bid stream bid
bidder place a bid streamer

enter live bids into system

receive online bid
bid
auctioneer mark item as sold capture

auction
start auction session
make payment
system track bidder activity bidder
tracker
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

video
streamer
view live video stream
view live bid stream bid
bidder place a bid streamer

enter live bids into system

receive online bid
bid
auctioneer mark item as sold capture

auction
start auction session
make payment
system track bidder activity bidder
tracker
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

video
streamer
view live video stream
view live bid stream bid
bidder place a bid streamer

enter live bids into system

receive online bid
bid
auctioneer mark item as sold capture

auction
start auction session
make payment
system track bidder activity bidder
tracker
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

video
streamer
view live video stream
view live bid stream bid
bidder place a bid streamer

enter live bids into system

receive online bid
bid
auctioneer mark item as sold capture

auction
start auction session
make payment
system track bidder activity bidder
tracker
auto
payment
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

video
streamer
view live video stream
view live bid stream bid
bidder place a bid streamer

enter live bids into system

receive online bid
bid
auctioneer mark item as sold capture

auction
start auction session
make payment
system track bidder activity bidder
tracker
auto
payment
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

auctioneer bidder

auction bid bid video

session capture streamer streamer

bidder
tracker

auto
payment
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

auctioneer bidder

auction bid bid video

session capture streamer streamer

bidder
tracker

auto
payment
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

auctioneer bidder

auction bid bid video

session capture streamer streamer

bidder
tracker

auto
payment
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

auctioneer bidder

auction bid bid video

session capture streamer streamer

bidder
tracker

auto
payment
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

auctioneer bidder

auction bid bid video

session capture streamer streamer

bidder
tracker

auto
payment
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

auctioneer bidder

auction bid bid video

session capture streamer streamer

bidder
tracker

auto
payment
Your Architectural Kata is...

I’ll Have the BLT

A national sandwich shop wants to enable 'fax in your order' but over the Internet instead (in addition
to their current fax-in service)
• Users: thousands, perhaps one day millions
• Requirements:
◦ users will place their order, then be given a time to pick up their sandwich and directions to the
shop (which must integrate with several external mapping services that include traffic
information)
◦ if the shop offers a delivery service, dispatch the driver with the sandwich to the user
◦ mobile-device accessibility
◦ offer national daily promotions/specials
◦ offer local daily promotions/specials
◦ accept payment online or in person/on delivery
• Additional Context:
◦ Sandwich shops are franchised, each with a different owner.
◦ Parent company has near-future plans to expand overseas.
◦ Corporate goal is to hire inexpensive labor to maximize profit.
◦ Time to market is critical.

Your Architectural Kata is...

I’ll Have the BLT purchase

location
order payment
local
global
info

promotion

global local

product
delivery
standard local
inventory inventory
order location
info info

local
recipes
recipes
Your Architectural Kata is...

I’ll Have the BLT

product

local
recipes
recipes local

local
location promotion
inventory

purchase

order payment

global

delivery standard
location promotion
inventory

order location
info info
 architectural quantum
An architectural quantum is an
independently deployable component with
high functional cohesion, which includes all
the synchronously coupled structural
elements required for the system to
function.
architectural quantum

layered monolith
architectural quantum?
Architectural characteristics live at
the quantum level.

reliability

scalability

performance

availability
Your Architectural Kata is...

I’ll Have the BLT purchase

quantum

location
order payment
local
global
info

promotion

global local

product
delivery
standard local
inventory inventory
order location
info info

local
recipes
recipes
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone! quanta

auctioneer bidder

auction bid bid video

session capture streamer streamer

bidder
tracker

auto
payment
architecture
patterns
architectural quantum
Architectural characteristics live at
the quantum level.

Q
u
a
n
t
u
m
architectural quantum
Architectural characteristics live at
the quantum level.

Q
u
a
n
t
u
Q
u
a

m
n
t
u
m
 architecture patterns help define the basic
characteristics and behavior of an application

persistence layer

microservices service-based layered event-driven

architecture architecture architecture architecture

pipeline microkernel space-based

architecture architecture architecture
microservices architecture
client requests client requests client requests

api layer

microservices is a label, not a description

 microservices architecture
architectural quantum

monolithic user user interface

interface

system
level
 microservices architecture
architectural quanta

partitioned user user interface user interface

interface

sub-system level
 microservices architecture
architectural quanta

micro front-end ui ui ui ui ui ui ui ui

service level
microservices architecture
drivers

modularity
agility
fault-tolerance
scalability
testability
deployability
evolvability
 microservices architecture
  agility   deployment   testability   performance   scalability   simplicity   cost

persis
tence
layer
service-based architecture
client requests client requests client requests

user interface layer

service-based architecture
drivers

modularity
agility
fault-tolerance
scalability
testability
deployability
simplicity / cost
evolvability
 service-based architecture
  agility   deployment   testability   performance   scalability   simplicity   cost

persis
tence
layer
layered architecture
layered architecture
drivers

simplicity
cost
 layered architecture
  agility   deployment   testability   performance   scalability   simplicity   cost

persis
tence
layer
 types of monoliths
“big ball
of mud”

unstructured
monolith

layered monolith modular monolith

 types of monoliths

layered
architecture
modular monolith
 types of monoliths

technical partitioning

layered
architecture
modular monolith
 types of monoliths

technical partitioning domain partitioning

layered
architecture
modular monolith
 layered architecture
  agility   deployment   testability   performance   scalability   simplicity   cost

persis
tence
layer
 layered architecture
  agility   deployment   testability   performance   scalability   simplicity   cost

D
D
persis
tence
layer
 layered architecture
  agility   deployment   testability   performance   scalability   simplicity   cost

D
D
T persis
tence
layer
event-driven architecture

broker topology mediator topology

event-driven architecture
broker topology

event
processor
event
  event module module

channel event
module module

event event
processor processor
module module
  event module module

module module
channel module module

event event
processor processor
module module
  event module module

module module
channel module module
 event-driven architecture
mediator topology

event
event
  event
queue
mediator
event

  event   event   event

channel channel channel

event event event event event

processor processor processor processor processor
module module module module module module module module module module

module module module module module module module module module module
event-driven architecture
drivers

modularity
agility
fault-tolerance
scalability
performance
elasticity
adaptability
evolvability
 event-driven architecture
  agility   deployment   testability   performance   scalability   simplicity   cost

D
D
T persis
tence
layer

T
 pipeline architecture
a.k.a. pipes and filters architecture

pipe pipe
producer transformer transformer

pipe

pipe
consumer tester
pipeline architecture
drivers

modularity
simplicity
cost
agility
adaptability
evolvability
 pipeline architecture
  agility   deployment   testability   performance   scalability   simplicity   cost

D
D
T persis
tence
layer

T
T
microkernel architecture

plug-in component plug-in component

core
plug-in component plug-in component

system
plug-in component plug-in component
microkernel architecture
drivers

modularity evolvability
simplicity agility
cost testability
adaptability deployability
 microkernel architecture
  agility   deployment   testability   performance   scalability   simplicity   cost

D
D
T persis
tence
layer

T
T
 microkernel architecture
  agility   deployment   testability   performance   scalability   simplicity   cost

D
D
T persis
tence
layer

T
T
T
D
space-based architecture
processing unit processing unit processing unit

virtualized middleware

messaging processing deployment

data grid
grid grid manager

db
space-based architecture
drivers

scalability
elasticity
performance
 space-based architecture
  agility   deployment   testability   performance   scalability   simplicity   cost

D
D
T persis
tence
layer

T
T
T
D
T
 architecture katas
identifying architecture patterns
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

An auction company wants to take their auctions online to a nationwide scale--customers choose the auction to
participate in, wait until the auction begins, then bid during the live auction as if they were there in the room,
with the auctioneer.
• Users: scale up to hundreds of participants (per auction), potentially up to thousands of participants, and as
many simultaneous auctions as possible
• Requirements:
◦ bidders can see a live video stream of the auction and see all bids as they occur
◦ auctions must be as real-time as possible
◦ both online and live bids must be received in the order in which they are placed
◦ bidders register with credit card; system automatically charges card if bidder wins
◦ participants must be tracked via a reputation index
• Additional Context:
◦ auction company is expanding aggressively by merging with smaller competitors
◦ if nationwide auction is a success, replicate the model overseas
◦ budget is not constrained--this is a strategic direction
◦ company just exited a lawsuit where they settled a suit alleging fraud
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

service-based space-based microservices event-driven

architecture architecture architecture architecture

performance
availability
reliability
scalability
elasticity
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

service-based space-based microservices event-driven

architecture architecture architecture architecture

performance
availability
reliability
scalability
elasticity
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

service-based space-based microservices event-driven

architecture architecture architecture architecture

performance
availability
reliability
scalability
elasticity

option 1
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

service-based space-based microservices event-driven

architecture architecture architecture architecture

performance
availability
reliability
scalability
elasticity

option 1 option 2
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

service-based space-based microservices event-driven

architecture architecture architecture architecture

performance
availability
reliability
scalability
elasticity

option 1 option 2 option 3

Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

service-based space-based microservices event-driven

architecture architecture architecture architecture

performance
availability
reliability
scalability
elasticity

option 2 option 3
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

service-based space-based microservices event-driven

architecture architecture architecture architecture

performance
availability
reliability
scalability
elasticity

option 3
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

microservices event-driven
architecture architecture

auction bid bid video

session capture streamer streamer

bidder
tracker

auto
payment
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

microservices event-driven
architecture architecture

Auction Bid Video Video

Session Bid Capture Streamer Capture Streamer
Service Service Service Service Service

Auto Bidder
Payment Tracker
Service Service
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

microservices event-driven
architecture architecture

Auction Bid Video Video

queue Bid Capture
Session topic Streamer Capture Streamer
Service Service Service Service Service

queue
queue
Auto Bidder
Payment Tracker
Service Service
Your Architectural Kata is...

I’ll Have the BLT

A national sandwich shop wants to enable 'fax in your order' but over the Internet instead (in addition
to their current fax-in service)
• Users: thousands, perhaps one day millions
• Requirements:
◦ users will place their order, then be given a time to pick up their sandwich and directions to the
shop (which must integrate with several external mapping services that include traffic
information)
◦ if the shop offers a delivery service, dispatch the driver with the sandwich to the user
◦ mobile-device accessibility
◦ offer national daily promotions/specials
◦ offer local daily promotions/specials
◦ accept payment online or in person/on delivery
• Additional Context:
◦ Sandwich shops are franchised, each with a different owner.
◦ Parent company has near-future plans to expand overseas.
◦ Corporate goal is to hire inexpensive labor to maximize profit.
◦ Time to market is critical.

Your Architectural Kata is...

I’ll Have the BLT

modular microkernel microservices event-driven

monolith

availability
reliability
scalability

Customizability
Your Architectural Kata is...

I’ll Have the BLT

modular microkernel microservices event-driven

monolith

availability
reliability
scalability

Customizability

simplicity
Your Architectural Kata is...

I’ll Have the BLT

modular microkernel microservices event-driven

monolith

availability
reliability
scalability

Customizability

simplicity
domain isomorphism
Your Architectural Kata is...

I’ll Have the BLT

modular microkernel microservices event-driven

monolith

availability
reliability
scalability

Customizability

simplicity
domain isomorphism
Your Architectural Kata is...

I’ll Have the BLT

modular microkernel microservices event-driven

monolith

availability
reliability
scalability

Customizability

simplicity
domain isomorphism
Your Architectural Kata is...

I’ll Have the BLT

modular microkernel microservices event-driven

monolith

availability
reliability
scalability

Customizability

simplicity
domain isomorphism
Your Architectural Kata is...

I’ll Have the BLT

user interface

product location

purchase promotions

local!
orders local overrides
dev!
Your Architectural Kata is...

I’ll Have the BLT

user interface

product location
location
custom
inventory

promotion purchase
promotion

standard delivery
inventory orders

global local
local
local
diagramming
software
architecture
diagramming architecture
 diagramming architecture

“…there is a proportional relationship between

a person’s irrational attachment to some artifact
to how long it took to produce it.”

Irrational Artifact Attachment

http://nealford.com/memeagora/2008/12/01/irrational_artifact_attachment.html
Your Architectural Kata is...

I’ll Have the BLT

A national sandwich shop wants to enable 'fax in your order' but over the Internet instead (in addition
to their current fax-in service)
• Users: thousands, perhaps one day millions
• Requirements:
◦ users will place their order, then be given a time to pick up their sandwich and directions to the
shop (which must integrate with several external mapping services that include traffic
information)
◦ if the shop offers a delivery service, dispatch the driver with the sandwich to the user
◦ mobile-device accessibility
◦ offer national daily promotions/specials
◦ offer local daily promotions/specials
◦ accept payment online or in person/on delivery
• Additional Context:
◦ Sandwich shops are franchised, each with a different owner.
◦ Parent company has near-future plans to expand overseas.
◦ Corporate goal is to hire inexpensive labor to maximize profit.
◦ Time to market is critical.

Your Architectural Kata is...

I’ll Have the BLT

user interface

product location

purchase promotions

orders local overrides

Your Architectural Kata is...

I’ll Have the BLT

BFF (iOS) BFF (Android) Web BFF (other)
{JSON} {JSON} {JSON} {JSON}
user interface

product {REST} location

location {REST}

custom
{REST}
inventory

promotion {REST} purchase

{REST} promotion

standard {REST}
{REST} delivery
inventory orders

global local
local
local
Your Architectural Kata is...

I’ll Have the BLT

BFF (iOS) BFF (Android) Web BFF (other)
{JSON} {JSON} {JSON} {JSON}
user interface

topology
product {REST} location
location {REST}

custom
{REST}
inventory

promotion {REST} purchase

{REST} promotion

standard {REST}
{REST} delivery
inventory orders

global local
local
local
 Your Architectural Kata is...

I’ll Have the BLT

BFF (iOS) BFF (Android) Web BFF (other)
{JSON} {JSON} {JSON} {JSON}
user interface

protocols topology
product {REST} location
location {REST}

custom
{REST}
inventory

promotion {REST} purchase

{REST} promotion

standard {REST}
{REST} delivery
inventory orders

global local
local
local
 Your Architectural Kata is...
entire quantum
I’ll Have the BLT
BFF (iOS) BFF (Android) Web BFF (other)
{JSON} {JSON} {JSON} {JSON}
user interface

protocols topology
product {REST} location
location {REST}

custom
{REST}
inventory

promotion {REST} purchase

{REST} promotion

standard {REST}
{REST} delivery
inventory orders

global local
local
local
C4:

C
O
N
T
A
I
N
E
R
 No correct answers in
software architecture…

…only tradeoffs.
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

An auction company wants to take their auctions online to a nationwide scale--customers choose the auction to
participate in, wait until the auction begins, then bid during the live auction as if they were there in the room,
with the auctioneer.
• Users: scale up to hundreds of participants (per auction), potentially up to thousands of participants, and as
many simultaneous auctions as possible
• Requirements:
◦ bidders can see a live video stream of the auction and see all bids as they occur
◦ auctions must be as real-time as possible
◦ both online and live bids must be received in the order in which they are placed
◦ bidders register with credit card; system automatically charges card if bidder wins
◦ participants must be tracked via a reputation index
• Additional Context:
◦ auction company is expanding aggressively by merging with smaller competitors
◦ if nationwide auction is a success, replicate the model overseas
◦ budget is not constrained--this is a strategic direction
◦ company just exited a lawsuit where they settled a suit alleging fraud
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

Bidder UI Auctioneer UI Video Source

{REST} / {AMQP} {REST} / {AMQP} {RTP}

Online Auction API Layer

{AMQP} {BLS} {RTP} {BLS}

Bid Bidder Auction Auto Video Video

Bid Capture
Streamer Tracker Session Payment Capture Streamer
Service
Service Service Service Service Service Service

comp comp comp comp comp comp comp

Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

Bidder UI Auctioneer UI Video Source

{REST} / {AMQP} {REST} / {AMQP} {RTP}

Online Auction API Layer

{AMQP} {BLS} {RTP} {BLS}

Bid Bidder Auction Auto Video Video

Bid Capture
Streamer Tracker Session Payment Capture Streamer
Service
Service Service Service Service Service Service

comp comp comp comp comp comp comp

Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

Bidder UI Auctioneer UI Video Source

{REST} / {AMQP} {REST} / {AMQP} {RTP}

Online Auction API Layer

{AMQP} {BLS} {RTP} {BLS}

Bid Bidder Auction Auto Video Video

Bid Capture
Streamer Tracker Session Payment Capture Streamer
Service
Service Service Service Service Service Service

comp comp comp comp comp comp comp

Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

Bidder UI Auctioneer UI Video Source

{REST} / {AMQP} {REST} / {AMQP} {RTP}

Online Auction API Layer

{AMQP} {BLS} {RTP} {BLS}

Bid Bidder Auction Auto Video Video

Bid Capture
Streamer Tracker Session Payment Capture Streamer
Service
Service Service Service Service Service Service

comp comp comp comp comp comp comp

Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

Bidder UI Auctioneer UI Video Source

{REST} / {AMQP} {REST} / {AMQP} {RTP}

Online Auction API Layer

{AMQP} {BLS} {RTP} {BLS}

Bid Bidder Auction Auto Video Video

Bid Capture
Streamer Tracker Session Payment Capture Streamer
Service
Service Service Service Service Service Service

comp comp comp comp comp comp comp

Your Architectural Kata is...
quanta
Going Going Gone!
Auctioneer
Bidder UI Video Source
UI
{REST} / {AMQP} {REST} / {AMQP} {RTP}

Online Auction API Layer

{AMQP} {BLS} {RTP} {BLS}

Bid Bidder Auction Auto Video Video

Bid Capture
Streamer Tracker Session Payment Capture Streamer
Service
Service Service Service Service Service Service

comp comp comp comp comp comp comp

documenting
software
architecture
 architecture decisions
an architect is responsible for defining the architecture and
design principles used to guide technology decisions
 architecture decisions
an architect is responsible for defining the architecture and
design principles used to guide technology decisions
 architecture decisions
architecturally significant

“We will keep a collection of records for architecturally

significant decisions: those that affect the structure, non-
functional characteristics, dependencies, interfaces, or
construction techniques.”
- Michael Nygard

http://thinkrelevance.com/blog/2011/11/15/documenting-architecture-decisions
 ADR semantic
versioning
short text
file doc/arch/adr-NNN.md
numbered no number
sequentially reused
Textile
asciidoc

reversed ADR
kept—
marked
superseded
 Architecture Decision Records
  Title: short noun phrase

  Status: proposed, accepted, superseded

  Context: forces at play

  Decision: response to forces

  Consequences: context after decision is applied

justifying decisions

the scenario
 justifying decisions
the requirement: you need to federate
the hub

external

b2b
 justifying decisions
the decision: dedicated broker
instances?

external

b2b
 justifying decisions
the decision: centralized broker

external

b2b
21. Centralized message broker for federated gateway hub
Status
Accepted

Context
The incoming gateway hub is federated into 3 separate hubs. Access to the customer information
functionality in the application is only through JMS using ActiveMQ via the hub. The two options are to use
a centralized broker or to use dedicated broker instances for each hub instance.

Decision
We will use a centralized message broker instance for all federated gateway hubs.

We currently have low request volumes (200 requests/sec) and anticipate this will remain stable for the
foreseeable future. Therefore we do not see a performance bottleneck issue.

We will leverage the ActiveMQ failover protocol coupled with clustered ActiveMQ broker instances to
address any single point of failure issues.

Consequences
The customer information application will only require a single connection to the ActiveMQ broker
instance.
The gateway hubs can be expanded and consolidated without any coding changes to the application.

The application doesn’t need to be concerned about where the request came from.
adr-001.md
 the case for Asciidoc(tor)

http://asciidoc.org http://asciidoctor.org
the case for Asciidoc(tor)

http://asciidoctor.org/docs/asciidoctor-diagram/
the case for Asciidoc(tor)
the case for Asciidoc(tor)
 architecture katas
documenting architecture decisions
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

An auction company wants to take their auctions online to a nationwide scale--customers choose the auction to
participate in, wait until the auction begins, then bid during the live auction as if they were there in the room,
with the auctioneer.
• Users: scale up to hundreds of participants (per auction), potentially up to thousands of participants, and as
many simultaneous auctions as possible
• Requirements:
◦ bidders can see a live video stream of the auction and see all bids as they occur
◦ auctions must be as real-time as possible
◦ both online and live bids must be received in the order in which they are placed
◦ bidders register with credit card; system automatically charges card if bidder wins
◦ participants must be tracked via a reputation index
• Additional Context:
◦ auction company is expanding aggressively by merging with smaller competitors
◦ if nationwide auction is a success, replicate the model overseas
◦ budget is not constrained--this is a strategic direction
◦ company just exited a lawsuit where they settled a suit alleging fraud
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

separate user interfaces

use of an api layer

use of microservices architecture

using messaging between services
Your Architectural Kata is...

Going Going Gone!

Bidder UI Auctioneer UI Video Source

{RTP}

Online Auction API Layer

{BLS} {RTP} {BLS}

Bid Bidder Auction Bider Video Video

Bid Capture
Streamer Tracker Session Payment Capture Streamer
Service
Service Service Service Service Service Service

comp comp comp comp comp comp comp

cache

using async pub/sub messaging between bidding services

1. Asynchronous messaging between bidding services
Status
Proposed

Context

Decision

Consequences
1. Asynchronous messaging between bidding services
Status
Proposed

Context
The Bid Capture Service, upon receiving a bid from an online bidder or from a live bidder via the auctioneer,
must forward that bid onto the Bid Streamer Service and the Bidder Tracker Service. This could be done
using async p2p or pub/sub messaging or REST via the Online Auction API Layer.

Decision

Consequences
1. Asynchronous messaging between bidding services
Status
Proposed

Context
The Bid Capture Service, upon receiving a bid from an online bidder or from a live bidder via the auctioneer,
must forward that bid onto the Bid Streamer Service and the Bidder Tracker Service. This could be done
using async p2p or pub/sub messaging or REST via the Online Auction API Layer.

Decision
We will use asynchronous messaging between the Bid Capture Service, Bid Streamer Service, and the
Bidder Tracker Service.

The Bid Capture Service does not need any information back from the Bid Streamer Service or Bidder
Tracker Service.

The Bid Streamer Service must receive bids in the exact order they were accepted by the Bid Capture
Service. Using messaging and queues automatically guarantees the bid order for the stream.
Using async pub/sub messaging will increase the performance of the bidding process and allow for
extensibility of bidding information.

Consequences
1. Asynchronous messaging between bidding services
Status
Proposed

Context
The Bid Capture Service, upon receiving a bid from an online bidder or from a live bidder via the auctioneer,
must forward that bid onto the Bid Streamer Service and the Bidder Tracker Service. This could be done
using async p2p or pub/sub messaging or REST via the Online Auction API Layer.

Decision
We will use asynchronous messaging between the Bid Capture Service, Bid Streamer Service, and the
Bidder Tracker Service.

The Bid Capture Service does not need any information back from the Bid Streamer Service or Bidder
Tracker Service.

The Bid Streamer Service must receive bids in the exact order they were accepted by the Bid Capture
Service. Using messaging and queues automatically guarantees the bid order for the stream.
Using async pub/sub messaging will increase the performance of the bidding process and allow for
extensibility of bidding information.

Consequences
We will require clustering and high availability of the message queues
Internal bid events will be bypassing security checks done in the API layer.
Your Architectural Kata is...

I’ll Have the BLT

A national sandwich shop wants to enable 'fax in your order' but over the Internet instead (in addition
to their current fax-in service)
• Users: thousands, perhaps one day millions
• Requirements:
◦ users will place their order, then be given a time to pick up their sandwich and directions to the
shop (which must integrate with several external mapping services that include traffic
information)
◦ if the shop offers a delivery service, dispatch the driver with the sandwich to the user
◦ mobile-device accessibility
◦ offer national daily promotions/specials
◦ offer local daily promotions/specials
◦ accept payment online or in person/on delivery
• Additional Context:
◦ Sandwich shops are franchised, each with a different owner.
◦ Parent company has near-future plans to expand overseas.
◦ Corporate goal is to hire inexpensive labor to maximize profit.
◦ Time to market is critical.

# Use of Micro-kernel Architecture

## Status
_PROPOSED_

## Context
Two key requirements of the system (_promotions_ and _location services_) have both global (affects all stores) and local (specific to location) requirements.

The current design features a modular monolith architecture, allowing individual stores to upload their behavior using JAR files, shown in _Figure 1_.

 <br>

_Figure 1: the current state architecture_

Currently, stores must specify custom behavior (product specials, promotions, location exemptions) via a JAR file, uploaded to the global site via FTP. Operations must certify the JAR, leading to delays in depl

All local customizations reside in one service and in one set of tables in the master database. Over time, as new customizations accrued, it has become a tangled mess.

To allow stores to most easily add and customize local behavior, the architects propose moving to a micro-kernel architecture, shown in _Figure 2_.

 <br>

_Figure 2: proposed microkernel architecture_

The new design allows easy update of global policy (products, inventory, promotions) while allowing local stores to selectively those choices when appropriate.

## Decision
The architects decided to migrate the current monolith to become the core system for the new microkernel architecture, and build new functionality via plug-ins.

## Consequences
The architects take advantage of the restructuring opportunity to localize databases to individual domains. Communication between services now occurs via messaging.

The new design also incorporates the BFF patterns, discussed in [004 BFF for device independence](001-use-of-microkernel.html).

The new design will greatly improve the customization workflow.

- the local store plug-in architecture certifies customizations automatically

- promotions within threshold values go live within 15 minutes
- all stores work with generic workflows via the core system, but locations can override to create custom behavior for:
- promotions
- location exemptions
- local products
# Use of Micro-kernel Architecture

## Status
_PROPOSED_

## Context
Two key requirements of the system (_promotions_ and _location services_) have both global (affects all stores) and local (specific to location) requirements.

The current design features a modular monolith architecture, allowing individual stores to upload their behavior using JAR files, shown in _Figure 1_.

 <br>

_Figure 1: the current state architecture_

Currently, stores must specify custom behavior (product specials, promotions, location exemptions) via a JAR file, uploaded to the global site via FTP. Operations must certify the JAR, leading to delays in depl

All local customizations reside in one service and in one set of tables in the master database. Over time, as new customizations accrued, it has become a tangled mess.

To allow stores to most easily add and customize local behavior, the architects propose moving to a micro-kernel architecture, shown in _Figure 2_.

 <br>

_Figure 2: proposed microkernel architecture_

The new design allows easy update of global policy (products, inventory, promotions) while allowing local stores to selectively those choices when appropriate.

## Decision
The architects decided to migrate the current monolith to become the core system for the new microkernel architecture, and build new functionality via plug-ins.

## Consequences
The architects take advantage of the restructuring opportunity to localize databases to individual domains. Communication between services now occurs via messaging.

The new design also incorporates the BFF patterns, discussed in [004 BFF for device independence](001-use-of-microkernel.html).

The new design will greatly improve the customization workflow.

- the local store plug-in architecture certifies customizations automatically

- promotions within threshold values go live within 15 minutes
- all stores work with generic workflows via the core system, but locations can override to create custom behavior for:
- promotions
- location exemptions
- local products
summary
 summary

There are no right or wrong answers in

architecture; rather, it’s always about
tradeoffs
 summary

There are no right or wrong answers in

architecture; only expensive ones
 summary
scalability

reliability

availability
persistence layer

business needs and architectural

characteristics are what drive the
architecture!
 summary
scalability

reliability

availability

performance

every architecture decision should be

accompanied with a technical and
business justification
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