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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)

IaC

Provisioning, managing, and even deprecating infrastructure is a costly activity in terms of human capital. Furthermore, repeated attempts to build and modify environments manually can be fraught with errors. Whether working from prior experience or a well-documented runbook, the tendency for a human to make a mistake is a statistical probability.

We can automate the task of creating a complete environment. Task automation can help to effortlessly complete repetitive tasks and provide significant value. With IaC, we can define our infrastructure in the form of templates. A single template may consist of a part or the entirety of an environment. More importantly, this template can be used repeatedly to create the same identical environment time and again.

In IaC, infrastructure is spun up and managed using code and CI. An IaC model helps you to interact with infrastructure programmatically at scale and avoid human errors by allowing you to automate resource configuration. That way...