Juan’s Reviews > Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach > Status Update

5th re-listen update on Jan 12, 2025

Reviewing the architecture patterns themselves because I thought it was what I most struggled with but looking back at the table of contents, I should review the beginning itself and maybe then the patterns can make more sense!

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Sometimes it can be hard to define what architecture characteristics are, and also implicit characteristics, which are termed that because it's hard to get a team to focus on them if they're called "non-functional characteristics". The first law of architecture is that everything is a trade off! I can't remember what the others are, but you never really choose the best architecture, just the worst least one!!!

The service-based architecture is a distributed architecture that scopes services by domain. It is often compared to a microservices architecture, which has a dedicated service (though I should walk a very fine thread as it has not yet been covered)