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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)

Ingesting data to the cloud

Public cloud providers such as AWS provide an array for big data services to store and process data on a large scale. The following are some options to move your data to the AWS cloud and utilize the scalability offered by the cloud provider:

  • AWS Direct Connect: AWS Direct Connect provides up to 10 Gbps of private connectivity between the AWS cloud and your data center. A dedicated network connection reduces network latency and increases bandwidth throughput. It provides more reliable network speed compared to internet connections where data has to hop through multiple routers. Direct Connect creates a cross-connect between the router managed either by you or a Direct Connect partner, depending on whether you are co-located in one of the AWS Direct Connect locations, and the router in that location that AWS owns. The circuit itself provides both a public and a private Virtual Interface (VIF). You can use the private VIF to directly access the resources running...