Reference architecture
When we started off with an article on Architecture in 2017, it was inspired by the book series, The Architecture of Open Source Applications Special:BookSources/978-1-25763801-7
Because the second volume of that book contained a chapter on MediaWiki, we focused on the architecture of that software, as implemented at the WMF for Wikipedia et al.
And, we referred to some of the literature at AWS for comparison since AWS was a commercial outlet where you could build your own without needing to replicate the vast free software organizational wisdom that WMF has.
Fast-forward 7 years, and this page serves as a launch point for reference architectures across various cloud providers.
Google Cloud[edit | edit source]
Google's cloud computing platform is called GCP. GCP lists "deployment archetypes" to describe the various mixtures of on-premises with cloud. And then goes on to illustrate some common patterns for their cloud such as "multi-tier application in multiple regions" https://cloud.google.com/architecture/multiregional-vms
This is all part of their larger website called the "Cloud Architecture Center" which contains the "textbook" talking points about adoption of big tech to meet business goals[1]
Microsoft Cloud[edit | edit source]
Microsoft takes a more branded approach to cloud, so it's called "Azure" (word meaning blue, like the sky).
Not surprisingly for a large software company, they go deep into describing "patterns" (ref. the "Gang of Four"'s Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software ISBN: BookSources/0-201-63361-2) of cloud computing at their Azure Architecture Center. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/patterns/
