Data Engineering Best Practices

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Architecture Framework – Conceptual Architecture Best Practices

The need for an architecture framework will be elaborated upon in this chapter. The framework is documented as a three-level conceptual, logical, and physical architecture, which is needed to clearly communicate the intended state of an IT solution. These levels consist of blueprints. There will be a clear focus on the conceptual architecture level in the chapter and, with it, the best practices for its definition as a current state artifact, as well as important considerations regarding best practices for its content. You may ask: What’s in a conceptual architecture? The answer is: the document that contains a human-readable conceptual rendering of the solution that is used to ...