One Pager Cheat Sheet

• This lesson provides an overview of key software architectural patterns and design structures, which has been republished with permission from Nishant Sharma.
• This article summarizes six Architectural Patterns, including the Layered pattern, Shared-data (or repository) pattern, Microkernel, Client-server pattern, Multi-tier pattern and Microservices, to explain how components and connectors create and access persistent data.
• Architects design module, component-and-connector, and allocation structures.
• The module structures useful for breaking down a program's design include Decomposition, Uses, Layer, Class, and Data Model structures.
• The Service structure enables interoperability through service coordination mechanisms like SOAP, while the Concurrency structure provides opportunities for parallelism and helps identify contention points.
• The Deployment structure maps software to hardware, the Implementation structure assigns modules to a file structure, and the Work assignment structure assigns teams responsibility for implementing and integrating the modules.
• Software architecture is the high-level design of a software system, while software design is more focused on implementation details.
• The key approaches to consider when talking about Architecture in a Project Life-Cycle Context are Waterfall, Iterative, Agile, and Model-driven development.
• SOAP and its associated WS* standards provide an infrastructure for service composition, transactions, service discovery, and reliability for distributed applications.