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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)

Going serverless

In recent years, serverless computing has become possible because of the popularity of public cloud offerings by cloud providers such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. Serverless computing allows the developers to focus on their code and application development without worrying about underlying infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and scaling. This abstracts server management and infrastructure decisions from the developer and lets them focus on their area of expertise and the business problem they are trying to solve. Serverless computing brings the relatively new concept of FaaS.

The FaaS offering is available using services such as AWS Lambda, Microsoft Azure Function, and Google Cloud Functions. You can write your code in the cloud editor and AWS Lambda handles the computing infrastructure underneath to run and scale your function. You can design event-based architecture or RESTful microservices by adding an API endpoint using Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda...