Solution Architecture Patterns 0.95 Released!

Chanaka Fernando
Solution Architecture Patterns
2 min readMay 29, 2021

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Let’s learn the latest developments in the solution architecture domain

It is with great pleasure we release the latest set of solution architecture patterns with the 0.95 release.

Update 2023 April: We have released a book to explain the topics discussed in this repository in greater detail. You can find the link to the book below. Solution Architecture Patterns for Enterprise

How have we made it so far

A project which was started 2 years ago to share the common knowledge within the solution architecture domain has made significant inroads within the open-source community. Here are some of the highlights from the journey we made so far.

  • 2,152 stars on GitHub
  • 296 forks on GitHub
  • 5 Contributors

In this release, we made several improvements to the repository by getting more contributions from new contributors and adding a new section to link the technology-related GitHub repositories to this repository. The figure below depicts the reference architecture for the automotive industry.

Figure: Automotive Industry Reference IT Architecture

You can learn more about this pattern as well as all the new patterns by visiting the GitHub repository here.

Given below is a summary of new features and improvements we made for this release.

New Features / Improvements

Vendor-neutral architecture patterns

  • Change Data Capture pattern
  • Innovations Driven Enterprise Pattern

Industry-specific architecture patterns

  • Higher Education Industry IT Reference Architecture
  • Energy Industry IT Reference Architecture
  • Automotive Industry IT Reference Architecture

Technology selection guides

  • Integration Platform selection guide

Vendor-specific architecture patterns

WSO2

  • WSO2 Deployment Reference Architecture on AWS
  • WSO2 Deployment Reference Architecture on Azure

Improvements

  • Added a new section with related technology architecture GitHub repository links
  • Changed the license to CC By 4.0 to make the content free to use

Contributing

We keep adding more and more solution architecture patterns and related resources as go along and we would like to hear from you and you can contribute to the repository by one of the following mechanisms

  • Creating Issues
  • Sending PRs
  • Fixing our content
  • Sharing the repository
  • Giving us a Star

Here is our GitHub repository.

Until the next release, that is all for now.

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Chanaka Fernando
Solution Architecture Patterns

Writes about Microservices, APIs, and Integration. Author of “Designing Microservices Platforms with NATS” and "Solution Architecture Patterns for Enterprise"