02 — RPC Patterns

Patterns

A book-shaped table of contents for reusable engineering patterns spanning object-oriented design, enterprise architecture, distributed systems, messaging, APIs, cloud infrastructure, observability, security, concurrency, AI/agentic systems, and organizational design — grounded in production experience at scale.

03 — API Gateway Patterns

Gateway, Backend for Frontend, Aggregation, and Federation — where cross-cutting API concerns (auth, rate limiting, fan-out) belong relative to the services behind them.

01 — REST Patterns

Resource modeling, pagination, filtering, HATEOAS, and versioning — the design decisions that separate a well-behaved REST API from an RPC call wearing HTTP verbs.

Patterns

A book-shaped table of contents for reusable engineering patterns spanning object-oriented design, enterprise architecture, distributed systems, messaging, APIs, cloud infrastructure, observability, security, concurrency, AI/agentic systems, and organizational design — grounded in production experience at scale.

02 — Pattern Selection & Trade-offs

How to choose between competing patterns under real forces: naming the context, weighing trade-offs and consequences, composing multiple patterns together, and recognizing when a pattern has outlived its fit.