Non-Functional Design for Operability

In the previous chapters, we touched upon two crucial elements of architecture design: security and connectivity. However, there are several more aspects you need to consider in your designs. In the first part of this chapter, we will discuss these design elements and how you can address them when designing with SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP).

Practically, your design is not merely for presentation purposes. Eventually, it needs to be realized as an implemented solution. As you know, the story never ends there, and the solution needs to be maintained until you don’t need it anymore. As an architect, although your mindset is geared toward the design aspects, it will always help to know how SAP BTP operates.

You can design more robust architectures by also considering the second half of the story. So, the latter part of this chapter will cover topics around support elements.

Therefore, in this chapter, we are going to...