Architectural Patterns

Pipes and filters pattern

An application is required to perform a variety of tasks of varying complexity on the information that it receives. A monolithic module could do this, but there are several inflexibilities. Suppose an application receives and processes data from two sources. The data from each source is processed by a separate module that performs a series of tasks to transform this data, before passing the result to the business logic of the application. The processing tasks performed by each module or the deployment requirements for each task could change. Some tasks might be compute-intensive and could benefit from running on powerful hardware, while others might not require such expensive resources. Also, additional processing ...