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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)

ITOA

ITOA is the practice of gathering data from various resources to make a decision and predict any potential issue that you may encounter. It's essential to analyze all events and operational activities in order to improve. Analyzing failures will help to predict any future event and keep the team ready to provide the appropriate response. Implement a mechanism to collect the logs of operations events, various activities across workloads, and infrastructure changes. You should create a detailed activity trail and maintain an activity history for audit purposes.

A large organization could have hundreds of systems generating a massive amount of data. You need a mechanism to ingest and store all logs and event data for a length of time, such as 90 or 180 days, to get insight. ITOA uses big data architecture to store and analyze multiple terabytes of data from all over the place. ITOA helps to discover any issue that you could not find by looking at individual tools and helps to...