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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)

Benefits of cloud-native architecture

In recent years, technology has been changing rapidly and new companies have been born in the cloud world, disrupting old and long-standing organizations. Rapid growth is possible because of no upfront cost involved when organizations are using the cloud, and there is less risk in experimentation due to the pay-as-you-go model of the cloud.

The cloud agile approach helps employees in an organization develop innovative thinking and implement their ideas without waiting for the long cycle of infrastructure. With the cloud, customers don't need to plan excess capacity in advance to handle their peak season, such as holiday shopping season for retailers; they have the elasticity to provision resources to meet demand instantly. This significantly helps reduce costs and improve the customer's experience. For any organization to stay in the competition, they have to move fast and innovatively.

With the cloud, enterprises are not only able to get...