Microservice Architecture

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Pattern: Sidecar

Context

You have applied the Microservice architecture pattern and architected your system as a set of services.

Problem

Forces

Solution

Implement cross-cutting concerns in a sidecar process or container that runs alongside the service instance.

Examples

Resulting context

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