Architectural Patterns

Architectural patterns are high-level strategies for organizing a system's structure and components. They provide a reusable solution to commonly occurring problems in software design, focusing on large-scale system behavior.

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Sharding

scalability architecture database

Sharding is a database architecture pattern used to horizontally partition a dataset across multiple machines (shards). This is typically done when a single database instance can no longer handle the growing volume of data or the increasing number of read/write operations. Each shard contains a subset of the total …

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Gateway Offloading

architecture scalability performance

The Gateway Offloading pattern addresses scalability and performance issues in systems with a central gateway component. It involves distributing the load from the gateway to other services or infrastructure components – such as Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), alternative backend services, or dedicated processing …

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Sharding

Gateway Offloading