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Architectural Patterns

By : Anupama Murali, Harihara Subramanian J, Pethuru Raj Chelliah
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Architectural Patterns

By: Anupama Murali, Harihara Subramanian J, Pethuru Raj Chelliah

Overview of this book

Enterprise Architecture (EA) is typically an aggregate of the business, application, data, and infrastructure architectures of any forward-looking enterprise. Due to constant changes and rising complexities in the business and technology landscapes, producing sophisticated architectures is on the rise. Architectural patterns are gaining a lot of attention these days. The book is divided in three modules. You'll learn about the patterns associated with object-oriented, component-based, client-server, and cloud architectures. The second module covers Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) patterns and how they are architected using various tools and patterns. You will come across patterns for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Event-Driven Architecture (EDA), Resource-Oriented Architecture (ROA), big data analytics architecture, and Microservices Architecture (MSA). The final module talks about advanced topics such as Docker containers, high performance, and reliable application architectures. The key takeaways include understanding what architectures are, why they're used, and how and where architecture, design, and integration patterns are being leveraged to build better and bigger systems.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Overview of enterprise architecture frameworks

An enterprise architecture framework (EAF) helps to map all the software-related development processes within an enterprise to fulfill the goals and objectives of the enterprise. EAF also provides a framework for the organizations to analyze and understand their weaknesses and inconsistencies. There are many popular and well established EAF frameworks that exist in the industry today. Some of them were developed for specific areas, whereas others have a broader scope. Some of the EAF frameworks that exist in the market are the following:

  • Department of defense architecture framework (DoDAF)
  • Federal enterprise architecture framework (FEAF)
  • Treasury enterprise architecture framework (TEAF)
  • The open group architecture framework (TOGAF)
  • Zachman framework for enterprise architecture

Though there are four or five prominent EAFs in the...