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Solutions Architect's Handbook

By : Saurabh Shrivastava, Neelanjali Srivastav
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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)
Preface

This book guides readers to create a robust, scaled, highly available, and fault-tolerant solution by learning a different aspect of solution architecture and next-generation architecture design in a cloud environment. This book will start by providing an understanding of solution architecture and how it fits into an agile enterprise environment. It will take the reader through the journey of solution architecture design by providing detailed knowledge of design pillars, advanced design patterns, anti-patterns, and the cloud-native aspects of modern software design.

The reader will dive deep into performance optimization, security, compliance, reliability, cost optimization, and operational excellence in solution design. This book provides an in-depth understanding of the automation of security, infrastructure, DevOps, disaster recovery, and the documentation of solution architecture. In addition, readers will learn various architecture designs in cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and how to best utilize cloud platform for your solution design, modernization, and migration needs.

This book also provides a good understanding of future-proof architecture design with data engineering, machine learning, and the Internet of Things (IoT). As a bonus, this book will also offer a soft skill aspect to enhance your solution architecture skills and continuous learning techniques. This book will you to start your career journey and improve your skills in the solution architect role. By end of this book, you will have gained the required skills to advance your career as a solution architect.