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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)

Refactoring and rearchitecting

In the refactoring approach, you can refactor your code to accommodate the new system. In refactoring, the overall architecture will be the same, yet you are upgrading your code to make it more suited for the latest version of the programming language and operating system. You can refactor the portion of code to apply automation and perform feature enhancement. You may want to take this approach if your technology is still relevant and able to accommodate business needs with code changes.

In the rearchitecting approach, you decide to change the system architecture by reutilizing the existing code as much as possible. For example, you want to create a microservices architecture out of your existing monolithic architecture. You can take one module at a time and convert it into a service-oriented architecture by giving each module a RESTful endpoint. The rearchitecting option helps you to achieve the desired scalability and reliability; however, overall performance...