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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)

Deliverables, artifacts, and building blocks

Throughout the execution of an ADM, several types of outputs are produced. Some of them are process flows, project plans, compliance assessments, and so on. TOGAF provides an architecture content framework that offers a structural model for the architectural content. This structural model allows several types of work products to be defined, structured, and presented in a consistent manner.

The architecture content framework basically uses three types of categories to denote the specific type of architectural work product under consideration. They are the following:

A deliverable is a type of work product that is reviewed and agreed upon formally by the stakeholders. Deliverables are typical outputs of projects and they are in the form of documents. These deliverables are either archived or transferred to an architecture repository...