The Computing Series

The 26 Components — By Layer

Layer Components Count
Request DNS, CDN, Load Balancer, API Gateway, Service Mesh, Rate Limiter 6
Application Application Server, Background Worker, Cache Server 3
Communication Synchronous RPC/REST, Service Discovery 2
Storage Relational DB, Message Queue, NoSQL Document, Key-Value, Wide-Column, Object Storage, Search Index, Vector DB 8
Processing Batch Processor, Stream Processor 2
Observability Metrics System, Log Aggregator, Distributed Tracing 3
Control Configuration Management, Orchestrator/Scheduler 2

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