Software architecture

lastmod 2026-05-29created 2015-06-1822 edits

Software architecture is the set of guidelines and principles that express the organic relationships among the components of software and govern its design and upgrades.

Categories

• Software Design
• Zero Downtime Release - Paper on Facebook's method of releasing without downtime
• Circuit breaker design pattern
• Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication#SWIFT payment network architecture
• Model View Controller pattern (MVC)
• Model View Presenter (MVP)
• Model View Viewmodel (MVVM)
• MVVM-C
• Clean Architecture
• CodeBoarding - Interactive architecture diagrams for codebases

Collection of system design resources

• Github - system-design-resources
  • Large-scale video processing: Facebook, Netflix
  • Cluster & workflow management: Facebook, Google, Netflix
  • Intra-service messaging: Airbnb, Nginx Service Mesh
  • Message queue anti-patterns
  • Service mesh
  • Practical system design: Facebook, YouTube..
  • Distributed file systems
  • Time series databases
  • Rate Limiting
  • Network protocols
  • Subscription management system: Netflix
  • Google Docs
  • API design
  • NoSQL DB Internals: Cassandra, Bigtable, DynamoDB
  • NoSQL DB Algorithms
  • Database Replication
  • Containers and Docker
  • Capacity Estimation
  • Publisher & Subscriber
  • Event Driven Architectures
  • Microservices
  • Load Balancing
  • Alerts and Anomaly Detection
  • Distributed Logging
  • Metrics and Text Search Engine
  • Single Point of Failure
  • Real Time Processing
  • Caching

See also

• Design pattern
• Software design
• Software design patterns
• Gang of Four (GoF)
• Algorithms
• Software architecture - Content on software architecture design.
• Event driven architecture
• System Architecture
• Systemizer - System design visualization tool

Favorite site

• Wikipedia (en) description of software architecture
• The architecture behind the LINE LIVE chat feature ¹
• Translation - 10 common software architecture patterns in a nutshell
  • 10 Common Software Architectural Patterns in a nutshell
• [Recommended] Github - The System Design Primer (Learn how to design large-scale systems. Prep for the system design interview. Includes Anki flashcards)
• Uber architecture and system design
  • Original: Uber Architecture and System Design
• [Recommended] (GN#93) Architecture stack of one-person tech startups ²
• How to build software that can keep growing
• Enterprise frontend application architecture
• Uber architecture and system design

References