Master Modern IT Architecture Patterns
Vendor-neutral integration and data platform patterns, with reference architectures for integration, data and security, curated and maintained by a practising architect. Reference material you can take into a design review.
Explore by Domain
From integration and data platform patterns to the security reference architecture: find what fits your context.
33 integration patterns: 11 integration styles, each for cloud/SaaS, external partner and internal boundaries.
Integration Patterns
API management, event streaming, middleware, change data capture, file transfer and more, each in internal, external and cloud variants.
Data Platform
A reference architecture and patterns for ingesting, storing, transforming and serving enterprise data, from medallion and Kappa to graph and time-series stores.
Security & Compliance
Security reference architecture; security patterns coming.
Appointment Booking: a worked architecture, end to end
One fictional system documented end to end: requirements, seven architecture decisions, a solution architecture design, three interface contracts and a running demo with an automated test for most of the contracts' acceptance criteria. Every item links to the real record.
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Long-form articles on architectural trade-offs, how to choose an integration pattern, and how integration architecture has evolved.
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