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Adaptive Presentation Core (APC)

By Everett Quebral
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Table of Contents

🧱 Part I: Foundations of Composability

  1. The Composable Mindset
    Designing for change, autonomy, replaceability, and modular thinking.

  2. Architectural Roots
    Tracing the evolution from SOA, Hexagonal, DDD, and Reactive systems to modern composable architectures.

  3. The Composable Design System
    Design as runtime infrastructure—building brand coherence and runtime adaptability across modular UIs.


💡 Part II: Composable Frontend Architecture

  1. Dynamic Interface Mesh (DIM)
    A runtime layer for modular layout composition, UI shelling, and cross-team integration.

  2. Composable Execution Layer (CEL)
    Managing behavioral composition, cross-cutting concerns, and execution contexts across federated frontends.

  3. Adaptive Presentation Core (APC)
    Context-aware visual layers that personalize, theme, and adapt UI state without coupling to business logic.

  4. Modular Interaction Layer (MIL)
    Encapsulating user input, intent capture, and UX-driven workflows in reactive, replaceable modules.

  5. Data-Driven Presentation
    Driving UIs through declarative data contracts, remote schemas, and manifest-based rendering.

  6. Real-World Frontend Case Studies
    Lessons from companies like Zalando, Netflix, and Spotify in delivering composable user experiences.


🔧 Part III: Composable Backend Architecture

  1. Service Composition Patterns
    Granular services, API gateways, and domain contracts for scalable backend delivery.

  2. Composable Business Logic
    Using Domain-Driven Design, command/query segregation, and rule orchestration for modular workflows.

  3. Runtime Integration Layer
    Message brokers, event bus models, and workflow engines enabling loosely coupled service coordination.

  4. Observability and Resilience as Modules
    Tracing, health checks, circuit breakers, and fallback strategies as first-class modular capabilities.

  5. Backend Case Studies
    Industry examples of backend modularization, including Amazon, Eventbrite, and internal developer platforms.


☁️ Part IV: Composable Infrastructure

  1. Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
    Terraform, Pulumi, and Crossplane for declarative infrastructure reuse and platform alignment.

  2. Composable Cloud Topologies
    Multi-tenant Kubernetes, service mesh strategies, and runtime boundary enforcement.

  3. CI/CD as a Composable Pipeline
    GitOps workflows, progressive delivery, and per-module deployment orchestration.

  4. Security and Policy Composition
    RBAC, secrets management, policy-as-code, and compliance modularity across stacks.

  5. Infrastructure Case Studies
    Paved roads from Netflix, Google’s SRE model, and reusable cloud infrastructure at scale.


🧪 Part V: Implementation Patterns & Case Studies

  1. Modernizing the Monolith
    Strangler patterns, anti-corruption layers, and phased modular migration techniques.

  2. Platform Thinking
    Developer portals, internal platforms, and shared capability systems across teams.

  3. Case Studies in Composability
    Cross-domain architecture stories spanning frontend, backend, and infra transformations.

  4. Measuring Success
    KPIs for modularity, time-to-change, velocity, and cognitive load reduction.

  5. Where Do We Go from Here?
    AI-native modularity, autonomous systems, and the evolution toward intent-driven architecture.

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