Evaluating, Recommending, and Presenting Your Solutions

We started our journey with the basics of data engineering and learned various ways to solve data ingestion and data publishing problems. We learned about various architectural patterns, as well as the governance and security of the solution. In the preceding chapter, we discussed how we can achieve performance engineering and how to create a performance benchmark for our solution.

By now, we have acquired multiple skills to architect efficient, scalable, and optimized data engineering solutions. However, as discussed in the Responsibilities and challenges of a Java data architect section of Chapter 1, Basics of Modern Data Architecture, a data architect has multiple roles to play. In an executive role, the data architect becomes the bridge between business and technology who can communicate ideas effectively and easily with the respective stakeholders. An architect’s job is not only to create the solution but also to...