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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)

Think data-driven design

Any software solution revolves around the collection and management of data. Take the example of an e-commerce website; the software application is built to showcase product data on the website and encourage the customers to buy them. It starts by collecting customer data when they create a login, adding a payment method, storing order transactions, and maintaining inventory data as the product gets sold. Another example is a banking application, which is about storing customer financial information and handling all financial transaction data with integrity and consistency. For any application, the most important thing is to handle, store, and secure data appropriately.

In the previous section, you have learned about different kinds of data types, along with the storage needs, which should help you to apply data thinking in your design. Solution design is heavily influenced by data and enables you to apply the right design-driven solution by keeping data in mind...