General rules and guidelines that define the use, design, development and deployment of IT systems, resources and assets.
These principles are valid in the context of Linked.Farm and related to its business objectives and key architecture drivers.
These principles, where possible reuse fully or partially common architectural styles and patterns.
There are defined in different design categies such as Communication, Interfaces, Development, Deployment, Domain, Infratructure, Security, Quality, Data, Technology, etc
These are applied for different architecture types such as Business, Application and Technology.