I find the reading of pattern description to be tedious, and the whole part 2 of the book, from chapter 9 to 18, is a listing of design patterns. Therefore I will simply list them with their one sentence description. Continue reading “PEAA – Part 2 – The patterns” →

This chapter is a bit more than a revision to the previous chapters. Much of what Fowler states, is outdated. Many of the questions he had at the time are not questions any more, they are certainties, some were even trendy and are currently outdated.

In any case, mixing his view at the time with my understanding of what is common practice now days, this is what I take out of this chapter. Continue reading “PEAA.8 – Putting it all together” →

This chapter talks about options to build a distributed system. However it is extremely outdated, as an example I quote ” SOAP is probably going to be the most common form…”. It turns out that the SOAP golden days were not there yet and currently have already passed. Now days most distributed systems are doing Microservices through RESTfull interfaces.

If we want to dive into this subject there are plenty of resources out there:

• REST
  • REST API Tutorial
  • API Cheat Sheet
• Microservices
  • Cheat Sheets
  • Micro-Services – Martin Fowler
  • ArrrrCamp 2015 – Stop Building Services, Episode 1: The Phantom Menace by Rachel Myers
  • Principles Of Microservices by Sam Newman
  • and many more videos in Youtube and articles throughout the web.

This post is part of a set of posts with my personal notes about all the chapters in the book “Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture” by Martin Fowler. I will do this as I read through the book, and take notes on the concepts I personally find more relevant.

Stateless objects are objects with no properties. However when we talk about a stateless server, we are talking about an architecture where the objects do not retain state between requests. This does not mean that the data is lost between requests, it merely means that the data is somehow temporarily persisted during the business transaction, the process handling the request is terminated and the server resources are freed. A new request can, then, resurrect the temporarily persisted data and continue the business transaction.

HTTP servers are stateless, as is the HTTP protocol. Despite this, when we look at a shopping cart in a web shop, we have a session and the items in the cart are preserved between requests without the business transaction been finished and its data being permanently persisted. This makes it in fact a stateful session. Continue reading “PEAA.6 – Session state” →