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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)

Improving reliability with the cloud

In previous sections, you have seen examples of a cloud workload for the disaster recovery site. Many organizations have started to choose the cloud for disaster recovery sites to improve application reliability, as the cloud provides various building blocks. Also, cloud providers such as AWS have a marketplace where you can purchase a variety of ready-to-use solutions from providers.

The cloud provides data centers that are available across the geographic location at your fingertips. You can choose to create a reliability site on another continent without any hassle. With the cloud, you can easily create and track the availability of your infrastructures such as backups and machine images.

In the cloud, easy monitoring and tracking help to make sure your application is highly available as per the SLA. The cloud enables you to have fine control over IT resources, cost, and handling trade-offs for RPO/RTO requirements. Data recovery is critical for...