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Data Fabric Architecture: A Practical Guide to Modern Data Integration, Metadata, Data Governance, Automation and Intelligent Data Platforms
Paperback
Series: Data Engineering Domain for Professional, Book 24
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 2 2026
Pages: 684
Weight: 1.98
Height: 1.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Data is no longer confined to a single database, warehouse, or cloud platform.
Modern organizations operate across databases, SaaS applications, APIs, data lakes, lakehouses, warehouses, streaming platforms, legacy systems, and increasingly AI applications. Connecting these systems is only one part of the challenge. Organizations must also understand, govern, secure, monitor, discover, and automate their data.
Data Fabric Architecture provides a practical guide to designing modern, connected, metadata-driven and intelligent data ecosystems.
The book explains Data Fabric architecture from foundational concepts through production implementation, with practical architecture patterns, examples, diagrams, SQL examples, checklists, and real-world scenarios.
You will learn how to:- Understand Data Fabric architecture and its core principles
- Design integration architectures using batch, APIs, CDC and streaming
- Build metadata-driven data platforms
- Use metadata for discovery, governance and automation
- Understand knowledge graphs and data relationships
- Implement data governance across distributed environments
- Design data quality and observability capabilities
- Build lineage and perform impact analysis
- Apply security, privacy and zero-trust principles
- Design Data Fabric architectures across cloud and hybrid environments
- Build governed and reusable data products
- Enable self-service data consumption
- Automate repetitive data-management operations
- Apply AI-assisted capabilities to modern data platforms
- Design production-ready Data Fabric architectures
- Understand the relationship between Data Fabric, Data Mesh, Data Lakehouse and Data Warehouse
- Prepare data platforms for generative AI, RAG and AI agents
- Understand the future direction of intelligent data architecture
This book is designed for data engineers, data architects, cloud engineers, analytics engineers, AI engineers, platform engineers, and professionals building modern enterprise data platforms.
Rather than focusing on one specific vendor, the book emphasizes architecture principles, patterns, design decisions, operational practices, and practical implementation concepts that can be applied across modern data environments.
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