In a recent preprint article by [Paul Bilokon] and [Burak Gunduz] of the Imperial College London the focus is specifically on low-latency patterns that are relevant for applications such as high ...

Design patterns provide proven solutions to real world problems faced in software designs. The Repository pattern is used to decouple the business logic and the data access layers in your application.

In using the Repository design pattern, you can hide the details of how the data is eventually stored or retrieved to and from the data store. This data store can be a database, an xml file, etc.