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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)

Creating multi-tenant SaaS-based architecture

In the previous section, you learned about multitier architecture; however, the same architecture that is built for a single organization is also called a single tenancy. Multi-tenant architecture is becoming more popular as organizations adopt the digital revolution while keeping the overall application cost low. The Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model is built on a multi-tenant architecture, where a single instance of the software and the supporting infrastructure serve multiple customers. In this design, each customer shares the application and database, with each tenant isolated by their unique configuration, identity, and data. They remain invisible to each other while sharing the same product.

As multi-tenant SaaS providers own everything from the hardware to the software, SaaS-based products offload an organization's responsibilities to the maintenance and updates of the application, as this is taken care by the SaaS provider. Each...