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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)

Web security

A web application is often exposed to the internet and is more vulnerable to external attacks. Solution design must consider preventing attacks such as cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection. These days, the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is causing trouble for organizations. To prevent this, the appropriate tools are required, and an incident response plan needs to be put in place.

Solution architects should plan to use a Web Application Firewall (WAF) to block malware and SQL injection attacks. WAF can be used to prevent traffic from a country where you don't have a user base or to block malicious IP addresses. WAF, in combination with a Content Distribution Network (CDN), can help to prevent and handle DDoS attacks.