Coordination pattern · Established

Choreography / Orchestration

Two ways to coordinate distributed work

What does Choreography / Orchestration mean?

Choreography lets services react to events independently; orchestration uses a coordinator to direct the sequence.

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Distributed SystemSoftware in which independent nodes communicate over a network and must handle partial failure and delay.
N-tier ArchitectureAn architecture that separates concerns such as presentation, business logic and data access into layers that may deploy separately.
Layered ArchitectureA structure where each layer offers services to the layer above and depends on layers below.
Hexagonal ArchitectureA design that keeps business logic at the centre and connects external systems through explicit ports and adapters.
Clean ArchitectureA family of designs that isolates core business rules from frameworks, interfaces and infrastructure.
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Bounded ContextA DDD boundary that defines where terms, rules and models have a specific meaning.