Architecture

See how systems connect.

The shapes of real systems: clients and servers, load balancing, service boundaries and content delivery.

System ShapesTraffic & ScalingService BoundariesDelivery

Concepts

4 diagrams in this area

Every concept opens with an interactive diagram.

A load balancer spreads incoming requests across several healthy instances of the same service.

Clients request, servers respond, and state lives behind the server rather than on the device.

A monolith deploys as one unit; microservices split the same capabilities into independently deployable services.

A content delivery network serves copies of your content from locations close to the user.