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Solutions Architect's Handbook - Second Edition

By : Saurabh Shrivastava, Neelanjali Srivastav
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Book Image

Solutions Architect's Handbook - Second Edition

4 (2)
By: Saurabh Shrivastava, Neelanjali Srivastav

Overview of this book

Becoming a solutions architect requires a hands-on approach, and this edition of the Solutions Architect's Handbook brings exactly that. This handbook will teach you how to create robust, scalable, and fault-tolerant solutions and next-generation architecture designs in a cloud environment. It will also help you build effective product strategies for your business and implement them from start to finish. This new edition features additional chapters on disruptive technologies, such as Internet of Things (IoT), quantum computing, data engineering, and machine learning. It also includes updated discussions on cloud-native architecture, blockchain data storage, and mainframe modernization with public cloud. The Solutions Architect's Handbook provides an understanding of solution architecture and how it fits into an agile enterprise environment. It will take you through the journey of solution architecture design by providing detailed knowledge of design pillars, advanced design patterns, anti-patterns, and the cloud-native aspects of modern software design. By the end of this handbook, you'll have learned the techniques needed to create efficient architecture designs that meet your business requirements.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
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Index

Disaster recovery and business continuity

In the previous section, you learned about using high availability and fault tolerance to handle application uptime. There may be a situation when the entire region where your data center is located goes down due to massive power grid outages, earthquakes, or floods, but your global business should continue running. In such situations, you must have a disaster recovery plan where you will plan your business continuity by preparing sufficient IT resources in an entirely different region, perhaps even in different continents or countries.

When planning disaster recovery, a solution architect must understand an organization's Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO). RTO is a measure of how much downtime a business can sustain without any significant impact; RPO indicates how much data loss a business can tolerate. Reducing RTO and RPO means incurring greater cost, so it is essential to understand whether the...