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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

Scaling your architecture

Let's continue with the e-commerce website example by considering a modern three-tier architecture, and see how we can achieve elasticity at a different layer of the application. Here, we are only targeting the elasticity and scalability aspects of architecture design. You will learn more about this in Chapter 6, Solution Architecture Design Patterns. Figure 3.3 shows a three-tier architecture diagram of the AWS cloud tech stack.

Figure 3.3: Scaling three-tier architecture

You can see a lot of components in this figure, including the following:

  • Virtual server (Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute)
  • Database (Amazon RDS)
  • Load balancer (Amazon Elastic Load Balancer)
  • DNS server (Amazon Route53)
  • CDN service (Amazon CloudFront)
  • Network boundary (VPC) and object store (Amazon S3)

As can be seen in Figure 3.3, there is a fleet of web and application servers behind the load balancer. In this architecture...