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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)

Design for performance

With the availability of fast internet, customers are seeking high-performance applications with minimal load time. Organizations have noticed that a direct revenue impact is proportional to application performance, and slowness in application load time can significantly impact customer engagement. Modern-era companies are setting a high expectation when it comes to performance, which results in high-performance applications becoming a necessity in order to stay in the market.

Like resiliency, the solution architect needs to consider performance at every layer of architecture design. The team needs to put monitoring in place to continue to perform effectively, and work to improve upon it continuously. Better performance means more user engagements and increases in return on investment—high-performance applications are designed to handle application slowness due to external factors such as a slow internet connection. For example, you may have designed your...