Martin Fowler

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For the last several months, I have been conducting workshops on distributed systems at ThoughtWorks. One of the key challenges faced while conducting the workshops was how to map theory of distributed systems to open source code bases like Kafka or Cassandra, whilst keeping the discussions generic enough to cover a broad range of solutions. The concept of patterns provided a nice way out.

Pattern structure, by its very nature, allows us to focus on a specific problem, making it very clear why a particular solution is needed. Then the solution description allows us to give a code structure, which is concrete enough to show the actual solution, but generic enough to cover a broad range of variations. Patterns technique also allows us to link various patterns together to build a complete system. This gives a nice vocabulary to discuss distributed system implementations.

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