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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)

Architecture repository

Another important concept of TOGAF is architecture repository. This can be used to store diverse types of architectural outputs, each at varying levels of abstraction; these outputs are created by ADM. This concept of TOGAF helps to provide cooperation and collaboration between practitioners and architects who are working at various levels in an organization.

Both enterprise continuum and architecture repository allow architects to use all architectural resources and assets that are available in an organization-specific architecture.

In general, TOGAF ADM can be considered typically as a process lifecycle that operates at various levels in an organization. ADM operates under a holistic governance framework and produces outputs that are placed in an architecture repository. Enterprise continuum provides a very good context for understanding the various architectural...