This document discusses design patterns for cloud architecture. It begins with an introduction to software design patterns and their history. It then covers the evolution of cloud architecture from physical infrastructure to virtual machines to containers and serverless computing. Various common design patterns are presented for each layer including three-tier apps, singleton, sidecar, ambassador and event-driven patterns. The document emphasizes that infrastructure can be treated as code with reusable patterns and provides resources for further learning.

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Arden Packeer
Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
Design Patterns for Developers in
the Cloud
Technical 201

2. Agenda
Why Design Patterns?
History of Software
Design Patterns

3. Agenda
Cloud Architecture Evolution
Physical
Virtual
Containerisation
Serverless

4. Agenda
Design Patterns
Collection of Common
Design Patterns

5. Agenda
Summary
Summary & Next Steps

6. Why Design Patterns?
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7. Why Design Patterns?
Combine into reusable parts
General repeatable solutions to
commonly occurring problems

8. Software Design Patterns – Gang of Four
Design Patterns:
Elements of Reusable Object-­
Oriented Software
Erich Gamma, Richard
Helm, Ralph Johnson
and John Vlissides

9. “Program to an ‘interface’, not an
‘implementation’” – Gang of Four

10. Big Ball of Mud Design Anti-­Pattern
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11. What Did Software Design Patterns Give Us?
Well Documented
Understood by software
architects and developers
Reduce Risk
Tried and Test solutions to
common problems
Reduce Development Time
Familiarity with patterns
reduces development time
Common Language
Collaborate and Share
Flexible
Can be tailored to specific
problem
Reduce Complexity
Solution becomes easier
to comprehend

12. Why Do Your Customers Care?
• Reduced Cost
• Dramatically increase Speed and Agility
• Increase Innovation
• Stop spending money on Undifferentiated Heavy Lifting

13. In the cloud, if infrastructure really is code,
where are the patterns?

14. “I think frugality drives innovation, just
like other constraints do. One of the
only ways to get out of a tight box is to
invent your way out” – Jeff Bezos, CEO Amazon

15. Why Design Patterns?
http://aws.amazon.com/architecture/

16. Pets Cattle Rabbits Microbes
Physical Virtualisation Containerization Serverless
Cloud Patterns

17. Physical & Virtualisation
Design Patterns
Pets Cattle Rabbits Microbes

18. Three Tier Web App Pets Cattle Rabbits Microbes

19. Factory Pattern
• Autoscaling Launch Configuration
• Reflection = Metadata
Pets Cattle Rabbits Microbes

20. Singleton Pattern
• AMI = Class
• EC2 Instance = Instance
• Termination Protection
• Autoscaling
• Autorecovery
Pets Cattle Rabbits Microbes

21. Containerisation
Design Patterns
Pets Cattle Rabbits Microbes

22. Sidecar Design Pattern
Main Function
Display Web Page
SideCar Function
Fetch Webpage
Extend and Enhance
Pets Cattle Rabbits Microbes

23. Sidecar Design Pattern Pets Cattle Rabbits Microbes

24. Ambassador Design Pattern
Main Function
Application
Ambassador
Function
Proxy Read/Write
Proxy and Enhance
Pets Cattle Rabbits Microbes

25. Ambassador Design Pattern Pets Cattle Rabbits Microbes

26. Adapter Design Pattern Pets Cattle Rabbits Microbes
Main Function
Application
Adapter Function
Normalise
Normalise and Abstract

27. Adapter Design Pattern Pets Cattle Rabbits Microbes

28. Serverless
Design Patterns
Pets Cattle Rabbits Microbes

29. “There is no server better than no
server” – Werner Vogels, CTO Amazon

30. AWS Lambda
A compute service where you
don’t have to think about:
• Servers
• Being over/under capacity
• Deployments
• Scaling and fault tolerance
• OS or language updates
• Metrics and logging
…but where you can easily
• Bring your own code…
even native libraries
• Run code in parallel
• Create backends, event
handlers, and data
processing systems
• Never pay for idle!

31. AWS Lambda – Benefits
EVENT-­DRIVEN SCALESERVERLESS SUBSECOND BILLING

32. Event Pattern Pets Cattle Rabbits Microbes

33. Observer Pattern Pets Cattle Rabbits Microbes

34. Clientside Serverless Pattern Pets Cattle Rabbits Microbes

35. Serverless Web Application Pets Cattle Rabbits Microbes

36. Summary
Pets Cattle Rabbits Microbes
Infrastructure = Code = Patterns

37. Where can I learn more?
• http://en.clouddesignpattern.org
• https://aws.amazon.com/architecture
• https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/lambda
• https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/cloudformation
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