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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)

Monitoring cost usage and report

Accurate cost factors help you to determine the profitability of business units and products. Cost tracking helps you to allocate resources at the right place to increase ROI. Understanding cost drivers helps you to control your business expenditure.

To optimize costs, you must know your expenditure pattern across the organization. You need to have visibility of IT cost expenditure over a period of time to determine cost-saving opportunities. You can take the required steps for cost optimization and understand the impact by creating a visualization of cost trends, which shows historical cost and forecasts by resources and departments across the organization. Your team needs to gather data by logging all data points, analyze them with monitoring, and then create a visualization report.

To identify cost-saving opportunities, you need detailed insight into your workload resource utilization. Cost optimization depends upon your ability to forecast future spending...