Data Engineering concepts: Part 8, Data Architecture

This is Part 8 of my 10 part series of Data Engineering concepts. And in this part, we will discuss about Data architecture.

Contents:
1. What is Data Architecture
2. Lambda vs Kappa Architecture
3. Practical project

Here is the link to my previous part on DevOps concepts:

Data Engineering concepts: Part 7, DevOps, DataOps and MLOps

What is Data Architecture?

Data Architecture is the blueprint of a data system that serves the business requirements of a product and describes how data is collected, stored, transformed and distributed. It consists of data models, governance policies, rules and standards that need to be implemented and followed to build a robust and secure data system.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvqCqK2Lpjg&list=TLPQMjQwMzIwMjTa5wH3VRpIKA&index=2

Data architecture has to serve both business and technical needs of the data system.