Application Architecture: Moving from Modern to High-Growth

The text discusses modern application architectures and their key characteristics. It highlights the "front door" pattern which involves multiple regions and a global load balancer, providing users control over traffic routing and resilience during unplanned outages. Most applications today use stateless microservices architecture where data is processed in various ways such as reading/writing to databases or third-party services. Real-time AI can be incorporated into existing architectures using inferencing libraries and batch compute clusters, with a natural evolution towards specialized AI services. The text also mentions the importance of choosing between managed and self-managed solutions for different components in an application architecture.