This document discusses how various software design patterns can be applied within the OSGi runtime environment. It describes patterns like Observer/Listener, OSGi Whiteboard, Dependency Injection, Circuit Breaker, and Domain-Driven Design and how they differ or are adapted when used with OSGi. For example, the OSGi Whiteboard pattern allows services and listeners to be loosely coupled without direct dependencies, and OSGi's declarative services specification provides a way to perform dependency injection and manage component lifecycles. The document argues that applying patterns like having microservices per bounded context can help match the original ideas of microservices while minimizing remote communication when using OSGi.