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Solutions Architect's Handbook

By : Saurabh Shrivastava, Neelanjali Srivastav
Book Image

Solutions Architect's Handbook

By: Saurabh Shrivastava, Neelanjali Srivastav

Overview of this book

Becoming a solutions architect gives you the flexibility to work with cutting-edge technologies and define product strategies. This handbook takes you through the essential concepts, design principles and patterns, architectural considerations, and all the latest technology that you need to know to become a successful solutions architect. This book starts with a quick introduction to the fundamentals of solution architecture design principles and attributes that will assist you in understanding how solution architecture benefits software projects across enterprises. You'll learn what a cloud migration and application modernization framework looks like, and will use microservices, event-driven, cache-based, and serverless patterns to design robust architectures. You'll then explore the main pillars of architecture design, including performance, scalability, cost optimization, security, operational excellence, and DevOps. Additionally, you'll also learn advanced concepts relating to big data, machine learning, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Finally, you'll get to grips with the documentation of architecture design and the soft skills that are necessary to become a better solutions architect. By the end of this book, you'll have learned techniques to create an efficient architecture design that meets your business requirements.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

What is the public cloud?

The public cloud is a base on the standard computing model in which a service provider makes resources such as virtual machines, applications, storage, and so on available to their customers over the internet. Public cloud services offer a pay-as-you-go model.

In the cloud computing model, a public cloud vendor provides on-demand availability of IT resources such as the server, database, network, storage, and so on, which organizations can use with secure web-based interfaces, or through application programs over the internet. In most of the cases, the customer only pays for the services that they are applying for the duration of utilization, which saves costs for them by optimizing IT resources to reduce idle time.

You can think of the public cloud in terms of an electric power supply model, where you switch on the light and pay only for the amount of electricity you use in units. As soon as you switch off, you are not paying for it. It abstracts you from the...