Multisite Commerce: Proven Principles for Overcoming the Business, Organizational, and Technical Challenges

Chapter 18. Data Sharing Architecture Patterns

Key Concepts

Build a multisite commerce platform around an overall data sharing architecture that suits business needs

Use architecture patterns from typical commerce scenarios as a starting point for the data sharing architecture of a commerce platform

Combine the features of several architecture patterns to create a data sharing architecture for a company’s complex scenario

Ensure that the data sharing architecture is extensible for a company’s future needs

We described a number of ideas that enable the sharing of data among multiple sites. These ideas included authorization domains for managing access to sites, model sites for managing shared data assets, and site paths for associating ...