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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)

Introducing DevOps

In a DevOps (short for development and operations) approach, both the development team and the operations team work collaboratively during the build and deployment phases of the software development life cycle, sharing responsibilities, and providing continuous feedback. The software builds are tested frequently throughout the build phase on production-like environments, which allows early detection of defects.

Sometimes, you will find a software application development and its operations are handled by a single team, where engineers work across the entire application life cycle, from development and deployment to operations. Such a team needs to develop a range of skills that are not limited to a single function. Application testing and security teams may also work more closely with the operations and development teams, from the inception to the production launch of an application.

Speed enables organizations to stay ahead in the competition and address customer requirements...