Information system design - Source of truth (SOT)

About

Source of truth.

See also: Single Source of thruth

In service-oriented systems there is no single source of truth, there are many.

A System of Record is the authoritative data source for a given piece of information.

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Example

Source of truth for:

• code: a version control system repository
• data: a transaction log

Documentation / Reference

• wiki/Single_source_of_truth
• https://www.confluent.io/blog/messaging-single-source-truth/