Pipe-and-Filter architecture refers to a style of architecture that was introduced in the early 1970s. In this section, we will introduce Pipe-and-Filter architecture, along with concepts such as filters and pipes.
Doug McIlroy introduced Pipe-and-Filter architecture in Unix in 1972. The implementations are also known as pipelines, and they consist of a chain of processing elements, arranged so that the output of each element is the input of the next one, as illustrated in the following diagram:
As shown in the preceding diagram, Pipe-and-Filter architecture consists of several components, named filters, ...
