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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)

Building a serverless architecture

In a traditional scenario, if you want to develop an application, you need to have a server where your desired operating system and required software can be installed. While you are writing your code, you need to make sure that your server is up and running. During deployment, you need to add more servers to keep up with user demand and add scaling mechanisms such as Auto Scaling to manage the desired number of servers to fulfill users' requests. In this entire situation, a lot of effort goes into infrastructure management and maintenance, which has nothing to do with your business problem.

Going serverless gives you the ability to focus on your application and write code for feature implementation without worrying about underlying infrastructure maintenance. Serverless means there is no server to run your code, which frees you up from Auto Scaling and decoupling overheads while providing a low-cost model.

A public cloud, such as AWS, provides several...