📘 Convention Overview
To ensure consistency, reliability, and scalability across our integration landscape, the Integration Team has established a set of conventions.
These conventions serve as a shared framework for all team members and stakeholders working on data and application integration.
🧩 Convention Chapters
🛡️ Compliance & Best Practices
Defines the security, governance, and operational standards that must be followed.
Includes access control, data protection, auditability, and documentation requirements.
➡️ View Compliance Rules
🏷️ Naming Conventions
Standardizes naming rules for Azure resources and integration components (e.g., pipelines, datasets, managed identities).
Ensures readability, traceability, and alignment with Microsoft best practices.
➡️ View Naming Conventions
🌍 Environment Management
Describes how environments are structured and used (e.g., dev, rec, int, prd).
Covers environment aliases, isolation principles, and deployment boundaries.
➡️ View Environment
🚀 Release & Deployment Practices
Outlines how integration components are versioned, released, and deployed across environments.
Includes CI/CD pipelines, tagging strategies, and rollback procedures.
➡️ View Release Conventions
📊 Monitoring & Observability
Defines how integration components are monitored in production.
Includes logging standards, alerting thresholds, and dashboards for operational visibility.
➡️ View Monitoring Conventions
🧠 Why These Conventions Matter
By following these conventions, we ensure that our integration ecosystem remains:
- Scalable: Easily adaptable to new projects and technologies
- Maintainable: Simplified troubleshooting and evolution
- Collaborative: Shared understanding across teams and roles
- Secure: Controlled access and environment segregation
- Auditable: Clear traceability and governance of data flows
- Observable: Real-time visibility into system health and performance
📌 This documentation is a living resource. Contributions and suggestions are welcome to keep it aligned with our evolving practices.