Django Design Patterns and Best Practices - Second Edition

Fowler's patterns

In 2002, Martin Fowler wrote Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, which described 40 or so patterns he often encountered while building enterprise applications.

Unlike the GoF book, which described design patterns, Fowler's book was about architectural patterns. Hence, they describe patterns at a much higher level of abstraction and are largely programming language agnostic.

Fowler's patterns are organized as follows:

• Domain logic patterns: These include domain model, transaction script, service layer, and table module
• Data source architectural patterns: These include row data gateway, table data gateway, data mapper, and active record
• Object-relational behavioral patterns: These include Identity Map, Unit of ...