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Do you know any patterns of microservice architecture design?
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In microservice architecture, the following design patterns are often used:
- API Gateway — a single entry point for all clients that routes requests to the appropriate microservices.
- Service Discovery — a mechanism for dynamically discovering the addresses of microservices in a distributed system.
- Circuit Breaker — protection against cascading failures, disabling calls to non-operational services.
- Saga — a pattern for managing distributed transactions through a sequence of local transactions with compensating actions.
- CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) — separating read and write operations for optimization and scalability.
- Event Sourcing — storing state through a sequence of events rather than current data.
- Bulkhead — isolating microservice resources to prevent failure propagation.
- Sidecar — a dedicated auxiliary service that runs alongside the main microservice (e.g., for logging, monitoring).
These patterns help address common issues in distributed systems: scalability, fault tolerance, data consistency, and complexity management.