Develop innovative architectural styles by analyzing and merging various approaches, focusing on making trade-offs and mitigating risks to solve real-world problems
Key Features
- Learn how to analyze and dissect various architectural styles into building blocks
- Combine existing ideas with your own to create custom solutions
- Make informed decisions by navigating trade-offs and compromises
- Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook
Book Description
Software Architecture with Kotlin explores the various styles of software architecture with a focus on using the Kotlin programming language. The author draws on their 20+ years of industry experience in developing large-scale enterprise distributed systems to help you grasp the principles, practices, and patterns that shape the architectural landscape of modern software systems.
The book establishes a strong foundation in software architecture, explaining key concepts such as architectural qualities and principles, before teaching you how architectural decisions impact the quality of a system, such as scalability, reliability, and extendability. The chapters address modern architecture topics such as microservices, serverless, and event-driven architectures, providing insights into the challenges and trade-offs involved in adopting these architectural styles. You’ll also discover practical tools that’ll help you make informed decisions and mitigate risks. All architectural patterns in this book are demonstrated using Kotlin.
By the end of this book, you’ll have gained practical expertise by using real-world examples, along with a solid understanding of Kotlin, to become a more proficient and impactful software architect.
What you will learn
- Master the fundamental principles of architecture and design
- Explore common architectural styles and their applicable scenarios
- Analyze, break down, compare, and design architectural styles to solve practical problems
- Reason, negotiate, and make difficult choices in the absence of ideal solutions
- Mitigate risks when making compromises and trade-offs
- Create scalable, sustainable, maintainable, and extendable software systems
- Use the Kotlin programming language to achieve your architectural goals
Who this book is for
This book is for developers with basic Kotlin knowledge seeking a deeper understanding of architecture, Kotlin Android developers who are starting to get involved in backend development, and Java developers transitioning to Kotlin. It's also ideal for software architects who are less experienced in Kotlin and want to enhance their skills, as well as those who enjoy discussing and exploring unique architectural concepts.
Table of Contents
- The Essence of Software Architecture
- Principles of Software Architecture
- Polymorphism and Alternatives
- Peer-to-Peer and Client-Server Architecture
- Exploring MVC, MVP, and MVVM
- Microservices, Serverless, and Microfrontends
- Modular and Layered Architectures
- Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
- Event Sourcing and CQRS
- Idempotency, Replication, and Recovery Models
- Auditing and Monitoring Models
- Performance and Scalability
- Testing
- Security
- Beyond Architecture
Jason (Tsz Shun) Chow has been working in the software industry since 2001. He is a Senior Vice President at CAIS, an alternative investment platform, with a focus on the complex domain modeling of private equity and hedge funds, combined with unified design and the use of artificial intelligence. Prior to this, Tsz Shun was a Principal Engineer at 11:FS, a digital fintech consultancy focused on building digital strategies and lovable products aimed at changing the fabric of financial services. In the early 2010s, Tsz Shun worked at IG Index on several latency-sensitive financial exchange services and authored the public APIs in the FIX protocol.
