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Solutions Architect's Handbook

By : Saurabh Shrivastava, Neelanjali Srivastav
Book Image

Solutions Architect's Handbook

By: Saurabh Shrivastava, Neelanjali Srivastav

Overview of this book

Becoming a solutions architect gives you the flexibility to work with cutting-edge technologies and define product strategies. This handbook takes you through the essential concepts, design principles and patterns, architectural considerations, and all the latest technology that you need to know to become a successful solutions architect. This book starts with a quick introduction to the fundamentals of solution architecture design principles and attributes that will assist you in understanding how solution architecture benefits software projects across enterprises. You'll learn what a cloud migration and application modernization framework looks like, and will use microservices, event-driven, cache-based, and serverless patterns to design robust architectures. You'll then explore the main pillars of architecture design, including performance, scalability, cost optimization, security, operational excellence, and DevOps. Additionally, you'll also learn advanced concepts relating to big data, machine learning, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Finally, you'll get to grips with the documentation of architecture design and the soft skills that are necessary to become a better solutions architect. By the end of this book, you'll have learned techniques to create an efficient architecture design that meets your business requirements.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Auditing and reporting

An audit is one of the essential activities to create recommendations and identify any malicious activity in the system by internal or external interference. An audit becomes especially important if your application needs to be compliant as per regulatory body requirements—for example, PCI, HIPPA, Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and so on. Most of the compliant regulatory bodies need to conduct regular audits and verify each activity going into the system to prepare a compliance report and grant a certificate.

An audit is essential to prevent and detect security events. A hacker may silently get into your system and systematically steal information without anyone noticing. Regular security audits can uncover a hidden threat. You may want to conduct a regular audit for cost optimization to identify if resources are running idle when not required. Also, determine resource demand...