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Scalable Data Architecture with Java

By : Sinchan Banerjee
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Scalable Data Architecture with Java

By: Sinchan Banerjee

Overview of this book

Java architectural patterns and tools help architects to build reliable, scalable, and secure data engineering solutions that collect, manipulate, and publish data. This book will help you make the most of the architecting data solutions available with clear and actionable advice from an expert. You’ll start with an overview of data architecture, exploring responsibilities of a Java data architect, and learning about various data formats, data storage, databases, and data application platforms as well as how to choose them. Next, you’ll understand how to architect a batch and real-time data processing pipeline. You’ll also get to grips with the various Java data processing patterns, before progressing to data security and governance. The later chapters will show you how to publish Data as a Service and how you can architect it. Finally, you’ll focus on how to evaluate and recommend an architecture by developing performance benchmarks, estimations, and various decision metrics. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to successfully orchestrate data architecture solutions using Java and related technologies as well as to evaluate and present the most suitable solution to your clients.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1 – Foundation of Data Systems
5
Section 2 – Building Data Processing Pipelines
11
Section 3 – Enabling Data as a Service
14
Section 4 – Choosing Suitable Data Architecture

API management

API management is a set of tools and technologies that allows us to distribute, analyze, and control APIs that expose data and services across the organization. It can act like a wrapper on top of the APIs, whether they are deployed on-premises or in the cloud. It is always a good idea to use API management while we are architecting a solution to publish data via an API. First, let’s understand what API management is and how it helps. The following diagram shows where and how the API management layer helps:

Figure 9.24 – How API management helps

As we can see, API management is a wrapper layer that sits between the customer-facing API and the internal service API. We can define resources and methods in the API management layer that get exposed to the customer. Primarily, an architecture gets the following benefits while using an API management layer:

  • Flexibility: API management enables easy deployment in a different environment...