Unified Microservices Patterns (UMP)
Most of us remember the beginnings of the visual modeling era in the 90s when a lot of leaders worked individually to develop their own methods. In that era, things were messy as there was no single universal language for modeling notations which affected negatively the communication, documentation, and collaboration between the different teams.
By the end of the 90s, three main leaders (Booch, Rumbaugh, Jacobson) have been grouped under a single consortium for the purpose of integrating their methods into a single, unified, de facto standard language for diagramming notations named UML.
Microservices architecture as a style is relatively new and similar to the beginnings of the visual modeling, a lot of leaders have individually defined the microservices according to their own perspectives. But, unfortunately, the discrete efforts had negative impacts on defining the shape of this style in a unified manner, especially the design patterns.
Nowadays, there are mainly 3 different schools for Microservices Patterns; Microsoft, Richardson, and Arcitura, introduced cumulatively about 145 patterns, with a lot of differences in the names and details, to provide reusable solutions for the common challenges that we may face while building Microservices Applications; Richardson introduced 58 patterns, Arcitura introduced 50 patterns and Microsoft introduced 37 patterns.
After reviewing the details of the 145 design patterns from the 3 schools, it has been noticed a lot of similarities and intersections between them, although the names in many cases are different. By taking the similarities and intersections into consideration, we were able to come up with 79 unique patterns which we will be listed in the following story.
Please find the below story for the complete list of the microservices patterns unifying the three schools.
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