Published: 13.09.2025
Updated: 12.05.2026
From the book Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach by Mark Richards and Neal Ford O’Reilly Media, February 2020. Note that a second version is available!
Architecture Styles:
In terms of deployment units, monolithic architectures are deployed as a single unit. Distributed architectures allow for multiple deployment units that communicate over a network
Pipeline architecture:
Layered architecture:
Microkernel architecture:
Microservices architecture:
Space-based architecture:
Service-based architecture:
Service-oriented architecure:
Event-driven architecture:
Characteristics:
An alternative overview (source: https://youtu.be/sglMckdhgD4?si=eu1hf_v5DJ2sEguo&t=2321):
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