Architecture Principles

Thus far we have written about the importance of establishing your organization’s mission, vision, best practices, and patterns, and general corporate principles; however, there are specific principles related to the architecture when developing a future-proof data engineering solution that will have to be addressed as we move forward. These principles carry with them the underlying corporate and IT values that will help keep a solution effective in the future. Tools, vendors, and various cloud offerings will morph to embrace new machine intelligence capabilities.

In this chapter, you will be provided with the foundation for developing principles. You will also be provided with a number of principles that are relevant to the task of building a future-proof data factory. Lastly, you will be provided with an abundant number of references for additional reading needed to flesh out a common understanding of challenges that will be presented as you form...