O'Reilly Technical Guide:

Principles and Patterns for Distributed Application Architecture

Designing Apps that Thrive in Hybrid Cloud, Multi-Cloud, and Edge Environments

By Jonas Bonér | Founder & CTO of Akka

Principles and Patterns for Distributed Application Architecture

Best practices to build resilient and elastic systems that balance performance and cost-efficiency

Modern applications aren’t built for just one environment—they must seamlessly operate across cloud, multi-cloud, and edge infrastructures. This guide provides the principles, patterns, and best practices to design distributed systems that are scalable, resilient, and efficient.

What you’ll learn:

  • Why cloud infrastructure alone isn't enough—and how to design apps that handle the inherent constraints of cloud and edge
  • Core principles for managing elasticity, latency, uncertainty, failure recovery, consistency, and consensus in large-scale distributed systems
  • Proven patterns for distributed systems (e.g., event sourcing, CQRS, sagas, async processing, flow control, state partitioning, replication, sharding, and gossiping) to navigate the complexities of cloud and edge environments
  • How to design distributed apps using the fundamental principles of microservices and an events-first, domain-driven approach

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