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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

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how the cloud is becoming the most popular mainstream application hosting and development environment for enterprises. At the beginning of this chapter, you learned about cloud thinking and how it's related to solution architecture design. Since more organizations are looking to move into the cloud, this chapter focused on various cloud migration strategies, techniques, and steps.

You learned about various cloud strategies, as per the nature of workload and migration priorities. Migration strategies include the ability to rehost and replatform your application for Lift and Shift and take the cloud native approach by refactoring and rearchitecting your application to take advantage of cloud native capabilities.

You may find some unused inventory during application discovery and retire it. If you choose to not migrate a certain workload, then retain the application as is on-premises.

Then, you learned about the steps involved in...