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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

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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

Avoiding anti-patterns in solution architecture

In this chapter, you have learned about a different way of designing solution architecture with various design patterns. Often, teams can drift away from best practices due to timeline pressure or the unavailability of resources. You always need to give special attention to the following architecture design anti-patterns:

  • In an anti-pattern (an example of a poorly designed system), scaling is done reactively and manually. When application servers reach their full capacity with no more room, users are prevented from accessing the application. On user complaints, the admin finds out that the servers are at their full capacity and starts launching a new instance to take some of the load off. Unfortunately, there is always a few minutes' lag between the instance launch and its availability. During this period, users are not able to access the application. You should take a proactive approach and use auto scaling to add additional...