CodeMash 2024: Application Architecture Patterns

For the 2nd day of CodeMash conference sessions, I wanted to continue the adventures down the architecture path. I was excited to catch my friend Joe Guadagno presenting on architecture patterns! And boy did Joe have a lot of history and diagrams covering a ton of architecture in a short period of time!

Layered and Model/View/* Patterns

I’m going to call these patterns “oldies” because they’re patterns I used earlier in my career and still hear them mentioned today.

• N-Tier Applications
• Model/View/*
  • Model/View/Controller
  • Model/View/ViewModel
  • Model/View/Presenter

Event-Based Patterns

There were a couple patterns that Joe mentioned with regards to patterns that are seen with events. These included:

• Event Sourcing
• Publisher/Subscriber
• CQRS – both with a simple CQRS and a bigger bus for CQRS + Event Sourcing

Common Microservice Patterns

To steal a meme from my own talk:

I feel like everywhere I go, people are like “Microservices?! Have you built your microservices yet?” And “We have to do microservices because our competitors are!” However, if you’re going into the realm of microservices, these are a few patterns you should know about:

• Ambassador
• Anti-Corruption Layer
• Backends for Frontends
• Bulkhead
• Gateway Aggregation
• Gateway Offloading
• Gateway Routing
• Sidecar
• Strangler Fig

Conclusion

I eat, sleep, and breathe many of these patterns, as the stuff I do for work tends to involve these patterns. I was excited to hear someone else talk about patterns I’m familiar with as well as learn about other patterns that I may not have seen before. And for all that was covered… there’s only 15 slides?! Joe posted the abstract and its slides here. If you are in a spot where you need to understand what architectural patterns are out there, this is a good discussion!