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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)

Operating cloud application

The operation phase of the migration process helps you to allow, run, use, and operate applications in the cloud to the level agreed upon with the business stakeholders. Most organizations typically already have guidelines defined for their on-premises environments. This operational excellence procedure will help you identify the process changes and training that will allow operations to support the goals of cloud adoption.

Let's discuss the differences between deploying complex computing systems in a data center versus deploying them in the cloud. In a data center environment, the burden of building out the physical infrastructure for a project falls on the company's IT department. This means you need to make sure that you have the appropriate physical environmental safeguards for your servers, such as power and cooling, that you can physically safeguard these assets, and that you have maintained multiple redundant facilities at various locations...