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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)

Automating the operation

Technology has been moving fast in recent times, and so IT operations need to keep up with that, where hardware and software inventories are procured from multiple vendors. Enterprises are building a hybrid cloud, so you need to handle both on-premises and cloud operations. All modern systems have a decidedly more extensive user base, with various microservices working together and millions of devices connected in a network. There are many moving parts in an IT operation, so this makes it difficult to run things manually.

Organizations maintain agility, and operations have to be fast to make use of the required infrastructure for new service development and deployment. The operations team has a more significant responsibility to keep services up and running and recover quickly in case of an event. Now, it is required to take a proactive approach in IT operations, rather than waiting for an incident to happen and then reacting.

Your operations team can work very...