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Solutions Architect's Handbook - Second Edition

By : Saurabh Shrivastava, Neelanjali Srivastav
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Book Image

Solutions Architect's Handbook - Second Edition

4 (2)
By: Saurabh Shrivastava, Neelanjali Srivastav

Overview of this book

Becoming a solutions architect requires a hands-on approach, and this edition of the Solutions Architect's Handbook brings exactly that. This handbook will teach you how to create robust, scalable, and fault-tolerant solutions and next-generation architecture designs in a cloud environment. It will also help you build effective product strategies for your business and implement them from start to finish. This new edition features additional chapters on disruptive technologies, such as Internet of Things (IoT), quantum computing, data engineering, and machine learning. It also includes updated discussions on cloud-native architecture, blockchain data storage, and mainframe modernization with public cloud. The Solutions Architect's Handbook provides an understanding of solution architecture and how it fits into an agile enterprise environment. It will take you 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. By the end of this handbook, you'll have learned the techniques needed to create efficient architecture designs that meet your business requirements.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
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Index

Building a cache-based architecture

Caching is the process of temporarily storing data or files in an intermediary location between the requester and the permanent storage, for the purpose of making future requests faster and reducing network throughput. Caching increases the application speed and lowers the cost. It allows you to reuse previously retrieved data. To increase application performance, caching can be applied at various layers of the architecture, such as the web layer, application layer, data layer, and network layer.

Normally, the server's random access memory (RAM) and in-memory cache engines are utilized to support application caching. However, if caching is coupled to a local server, then the cache will not be persisting data, in case of a server crash. Now, most of the applications are in a distributed environment, so it's better to have a dedicated caching layer that should be independent of the application life cycle. If you applied horizontal scaling...