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Lesson 18: Audit Logging & Compliance

Immutable audit logs per tenant. Activity feed. Data retention policies. GDPR compliance: data deletion, export. SOC 2 requirements.

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Lesson 18: Audit Logging & Compliance

Introduction

Immutable audit logs per tenant. Activity feed. Data retention policies. GDPR compliance: data deletion, export. SOC 2 requirements.


1. Immutable audit logs per tenant

1.1 Basic concepts

Immutable audit logs per tenant is one of the most important topics in this field. Understanding the core concepts will help you design the right system from the beginning.

Key Concepts:
├── Concept 1: Nền tảng lý thuyết
├── Concept 2: Áp dụng thực tế
├── Concept 3: Best practices
└── Concept 4: Anti-patterns cần tránh

1.2 Why is it important?

AspectNot applicableCorrect application
PerformanceBottlenecks, high latencyOptimized, scalable
ReliabilitySingle point of failureFault-tolerant
MaintainabilityTechnical debt accumulatedClean architecture
SecurityVulnerableDefense in depth

2. Activity feed

2.1 General architecture

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                  SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE                 │
│                                                      │
│  ┌──────────┐  ┌──────────┐  ┌──────────────────┐  │
│  │  Client   │  │  API     │  │  Core Service    │  │
│  │  Layer    │──│  Gateway │──│  Layer           │  │
│  └──────────┘  └──────────┘  └──────────────────┘  │
│                                      │               │
│                               ┌──────▼──────┐       │
│                               │  Data Layer │       │
│                               └─────────────┘       │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

2.2 Component Design

Each component in the system needs to be designed with the following principles:

  • Single Responsibility: Each component only takes on one responsibility
  • Loose Coupling: Minimize dependencies between components
  • High Cohesion: Related elements are in the same component
  • Interface Segregation: Clear, separate API

3. Data retention policies

3.1 Design Patterns applied

Applied Patterns:
├── Strategy Pattern: Cho phép thay đổi algorithm at runtime
├── Observer Pattern: Event notification mechanism
├── Repository Pattern: Data access abstraction
└── Factory Pattern: Object creation flexibility

3.2 Code Example

// Example implementation
public interface Service {
    Result process(Request request);
    boolean supports(RequestType type);
}

@Component
public class CoreService implements Service {

    @Override
    public Result process(Request request) {
        // Validate input
        validator.validate(request);

        // Execute business logic
        var result = businessLogic.execute(request);

        // Publish domain event
        eventBus.publish(new ProcessedEvent(result));

        return result;
    }
}

4. GDPR compliance: data deletion, export

4.1 Monitoring & Observability

Observability Stack:
├── Metrics: Prometheus + Grafana
├── Logging: ELK / Loki
├── Tracing: OpenTelemetry + Jaeger
└── Alerting: PagerDuty

4.2 Performance Optimization

MetricsTargetStrategy
Latency p99< 100msCaching, async processing
Throughput> 10K RPSHorizontal scaling
Availability99.99%Multi-region, failover
Error rate< 0.01%Circuit breaker, retry

Summary

In this lesson, we learned about Audit Logging & Compliance. Key takeaways:

  • Understand core concepts and how to apply
  • Design architecture in accordance with requirements
  • Implementation patterns and best practices
  • Production considerations: monitoring, performance, security

Next article: We will continue with the next topic in the series.