API Architectural Patterns

The table below identifies some architectural and deployment patterns that bear further investigation. There are a number of vendor specific references that are also available however this document does not recommend any particular one.

Pattern	Reference
Microservices	https://martinfowler.com/microservices
API Management	https://nordicapis.com/understanding-api-management-api-gateway-and-api-manager
Observability	https://martinfowler.com/articles/domain-oriented-observability.html https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/distributed-systems-observability/9781492033431/ch04.html
API Publication / Discovery	https://apievangelist.com/2021/02/11/gathering-my-thoughts-on-api-discovery
Hybrid Deployments	https://nordicapis.com/making-sense-of-a-multi-cloud-api-approach
Service Mesh	https://nordicapis.com/introduction-to-service-mesh https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-enterprise-path/9781492041795/ch01.html