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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)

Code editor

DevOps is a hands-on coding role, where you often need to write a script to automate the environment. You can use the ACE editor or the cloud-based AWS Cloud9 integrated development environment (IDE); you can use a web-based code editor on your local computer or install a code editor in your local server that connects to the application environments—such as dev, test, and prod—to interact. An environment is a place where you store your project's files and where you run the tools to develop your apps. You can save these files locally on the instance or server, or clone a remote code repository into your environment. The AWS Cloud9 IDE is the cloud-native IDE provided as a managed service.

The Ace editor lets you write code quickly and easily. It's a web-based code editor but provides performance similar to popular desktop-based code editors such as Eclipse, Vim, and Visual Studio Code (VSCode), and so on. It has standard IDE features such as live syntax...