architecture styles

Complete

Concept

overall organization of the system, high-level design
a mix of styles is often used

Architecture diagrams

free form, no fixed standard
organization of the system at a high level
multi-level design
- for larger systems
- break up into multiple levels

N-tier architecture

divided into layers
layers make use of servides provided by lower layers
eg. network layers

Client-server architecture

server component and client component
used in distributed applications

Transaction processing architecture

workload is divided into transactions
dispatcher controls the execution of each transaction

Service-oriented architecture(SOA)

functionalities packaged as programmatically accessible services
interoperability between distributed services
common communication language/system between softwares

Event-driven architecture

detect events from event emitters
dispatched to interested event consumers