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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)

Preparing a response

Keep yourself ready for any security events. Create an incident management process as per your organizational policy requirements. Incident management can differ from one organization to another and from one application to another. For example, if your application is handling Personal Identifiable Information (PII) of your customers, you need a tighter security measure in your incident response. However, if the application is handling small amounts of sensitive data, such as an inventory management application, then it will have a different approach.

Make sure to simulate the incident response to see how your security team is recovering from the situation. Your team should use automation tools for speed of detection, investigation, and response to any security event. You need to set up the alert, monitor, and audit mechanisms to do Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to prevent such events occurring again.

In this section, you learned about the general security principles to...