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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

Creating a floating IP pattern

It's common that monolithic applications have lots of dependencies on the server where they are deployed. Often, application configuration and code have hardcoded parameters based on the server DNS name and IP address. Hardcoded IP configuration creates challenges if you want to bring up a new server in case of an issue with the original server. Additionally, you don't want to bring down the entire application for the upgrade, which may cause significant downtime.

To handle such a situation, you need to create a new server keeping the same server IP address and DNS name. This can be achieved by moving the network interface from a problematic instance to the new server. The network interface is generally based on a Network Interface Card (NIC), which facilitates communication between servers over a network. It can be in the form of hardware or software. Moving the network interface means that now your new server assumes the identity of the...