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title: "Arranging communication"
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# Arranging communication

> Imported source page from Denys Poltorak's *Architectural Metapatterns* wiki. Source path: `Foundations of software architecture/Arranging communication/Arranging communication.md`.

As a project grows, it tends to become subdivided into services, modules, or whatever you call the [[wiki/concepts/source/basic-metapatterns/services|components that match its subdomains]] (or *bounded contexts*, if you prefer the \[[wiki/concepts/source/appendices/books-referenced|[DDD]]\] convention). Still, there remain system-wide use cases that require collaboration from many or all of the system’s parts – otherwise the components don’t even form a single system. Let’s see how they can be integrated.


![A monolithic system is subdivided into several services but it is an open question how the resulting components should be integrated.](/pixi-wiki/wiki/software-architecture-metapatterns/assets/images/Communication/Monolith%20to%20Services.png)


As integration is not unique to distributed systems – it is present even in smaller programs that need to make data, functions, and classes work together – we’ll take a look at programming and architectural paradigms next.

## Contents:

- [[wiki/concepts/source/foundations-of-software-architecture/programming-and-architectural-paradigms|Programming and architectural paradigms]]
- [[wiki/concepts/source/foundations-of-software-architecture/orchestration|Orchestration]]
- [[wiki/concepts/source/foundations-of-software-architecture/choreography|Choreography]]
- [[wiki/concepts/source/foundations-of-software-architecture/shared-data|Shared data]]
- [[wiki/concepts/source/foundations-of-software-architecture/comparison-of-communication-styles|Comparison of communication styles]]