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Solutions Architect's Handbook

By : Saurabh Shrivastava, Neelanjali Srivastav
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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)

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how the cloud is becoming the most popular mainstream application hosting and development environment for enterprises. At the beginning of this chapter, you learned about cloud thinking and how it's related to solution architecture design. Since more organizations are looking to move into the cloud, this chapter focused on various cloud migration strategies, techniques, and steps.

You learned about various cloud strategies, as per the nature of workload and migration priorities. Migration strategies include the ability to rehost and replatform your application for Lift and Shift and takes the cloud-native approach by refactoring and rearchitecting your application to take advantage of cloud-native capabilities. You may find some unused inventory during application discovery and retire it. If you choose to not migrate a certain workload then retain the application as is on-premises.

Then, you learned about the steps involved in cloud migration...