Sidecar
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What is Sidecar?
Deploy components of an application into a separate process or container to provide isolation and encapsulation. This pattern can also enable applications to be composed of heterogeneous components and technologies.
This pattern is named Sidecar because it resembles a sidecar attached to a motorcycle. In the pattern, the sidecar is attached to a parent application and provides supporting features for the application. The sidecar also shares the same lifecycle as the parent application, being created and retired alongside the parent. The sidecar pattern is sometimes referred to as the sidekick pattern and is a decomposition pattern.
Free resources to learn Sidecar
More in stage 23: Reliability Patterns
- Reliability Patterns
- Strangler Fig
- Static Content Hosting
- Leader Election
- CQRS
- Pipes & Filters
- Ambassador
- Gateway Routing
- Gateway Offloading
- Gateway Aggregation
- External Config Store
- Compute Resource Consolidation
- Backends for Frontend
- Anti-Corruption Layer
- Valet Key
- Sequential Convoy
- Static Content Hosting
- Scheduling Agent Supervisor
- Sharding
- Queue-Based Load Leveling
- Materialized View
- Publisher/Subscriber
- Index Table
- Priority Queue
- Event Sourcing
- Pipes and Filters
- CQRS
- Competing Consumers
- Cache-Aside
- Choreography
- Claim Check
- Async Request Reply
Sidecar: common questions
Can I learn Sidecar in Hindi?
This lesson is written in English. Once you sign in, open it in the interactive course and ask the AI tutor to explain Sidecar in Hindi or Hinglish. The tutor answers from this lesson’s own text, so it stays on the syllabus, and it runs on your own Google, OpenAI or Anthropic key.
Is this Sidecar tutorial for beginners?
It is lesson 92 of 147 in the free System Design roadmap, in stage 23, Reliability Patterns. If you are new to System Design, start from stage 1 and come back here in order; if you already know the earlier stages, this lesson stands on its own.