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🧵 A cloth material 🏛️ Basic structure 💻 Unified data system
fabric

fabric

12 6.0
A system that connects different data sources so they work together
  • noun
  • /ˈfæbrɪk/
  • Specialized
translation icon : arquitectura de datos
  • The new cloud infrastructure uses a fabric approach to manage data across different platforms.
  • the fabric of spacetime
  • fabric filters
  • the social fabric

IBM is the software provider of Piper Ledger Fabric.

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Examples

  • Using a centralized fabric allows developers to integrate applications more efficiently in distributed environments.

  • The improved switch fabric in the G5 system design is critical to the attainment of this goal.

    Academic text (1999)

  • Computers are embedded into fabric, into toys, into phones, into clouds.

  • New Era Farms in Halifax, Nova Scotia, also has a fabric structure supplied by the same manufacturer.

    Academic text (2001)

  • Another trend is the application of fabric-covered structures designed for agriculture and soil remediation to composting facilities.

    Academic text (2001)

  • The polymer fabric and galvanized steel structure by Cover-All has worked well so far, Blackburn says.

    Academic text (2001)

  • Table 3 summarizes the mechanical properties of the carbon fabric, the epoxy matrix, and the cured laminate as provided by the manufacturer.

    Academic text (2017)

  • In modern computing, a fabric is essential for connecting various data sources seamlessly.

Idioms

to rend the fabric of reality
  • Literature
9.9

To make people feel that reality is broken and strange

Compounds

urban fabric
  • Specialized
1 6.4

The buildings, streets, and people that make a city's character and layout

swatch of fabric
1 3.5

A small piece of cloth to show color, feel, or pattern before you buy it

fabric stiffener
6.2

Something you put on cloth to make it stiff

figured-fabric loom
  • Specialized
9.6

A machine that weaves cloth with decorative patterns

rough-grained fabric
6.0

A cloth with a coarse, uneven surface that feels scratchy

How Integrated

platforming
  • Specialized
6.7
fabric
  • Specialized
12 6.0
data system
  • Specialized
2 3.4
standalone
6 4.1
silo
  • Jargon
10 6.8

Surface Forms

fabric singular
fabrics plural

Etymology

The computing sense of fabric uses the same idea from Latin fabrica of things 'made' together, but now the 'threads' are data and systems. A helpful way to remember it is to think of many data sources 'woven' into one layer, so a data fabric connects and holds them together.