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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

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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

Implementing a CD strategy

CD provides seamless migration of the existing version to the new version of the application. Some of the most popular techniques to implement through CD are as follows:

  • In-place deployment: Update application in a current server
  • Rolling deployment: Gradually roll out the new version in the existing fleet of servers
  • Blue-green deployment: Gradually replace the existing server with the new server
  • Red-black deployment: Instant cutover to the new server from the existing server
  • Immutable deployment: Stand up a new set of servers altogether

Let's explore each option in more detail.

In-place deployment

In-place deployment is a method of rolling out a new application version on an existing fleet of servers. The update is done in one deployment action, thereby requiring some degree of downtime. On the other side, there are hardly any infrastructure changes needed for this update. There is also no need to...