Summary

In summary, this chapter brought you on a journey where you were able to discover what goes into conceptual architecture and conceptual reference architecture. You also discovered key aspects of the architecture driving the best practices that will be evident in the book. By forming the conceptual reference architecture diagram, you created an architecture that could be communicated. Via a due diligence process, you made important objectively obtained vendor and tool decisions, and you learned that by itemizing capabilities needed in the solution, you justified the drivers for the logical architecture.

Additionally, new terminology was explained and a glossary was produced for clarity. Data class, data movement, and data formats in zones were identified. ELT is better than ETL (refer back to Chapter 2, where this was discussed), so we can get back to the raw data of the system that is being transformed multiple times in order to get it curated into final form. The data factory...