Analyze Pipes and Filters Architectures
The architectural pattern Pipes and Filters is useful whenever you want to process an input as a sequence of steps, where each step encapsulates a certain transformation. It’s a popular pattern in web frameworks. A browser request serves as the input event, triggering a sequence of authentication, validation, and other steps before the result is returned.
The core idea in Pipes and Filters is to “divide the application’s task into several self-contained data processing steps” (quotation from Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture Volume 4: A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing [BHS07]). Based on that description, we can agree that any Pipes and Filters implementation with coupled processing steps ...
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