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Solutions Architect's Handbook

By : Saurabh Shrivastava, Neelanjali Srivastav
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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)

Summary

Operational excellence can be achieved by working on continuous improvement as per operational needs, and lessons learned from past events using RCA. You can achieve business success by increasing the excellence of your operations. Build and operate applications that increase efficiency while building highly responsive deployments. Use best practices to make your workloads operationally excellent.

In this chapter, you learned about the design principles to achieve operational excellence. These principles advocate operation automation, continuous improvement, taking an incremental approach, predicting failure, and being ready to respond. You learned about various phases of operational excellence and the corresponding technology choices. In the planning phase, you learned about ITAM to track the inventory of IT resources and identify dependencies between them using configuration management.

You learned about alerts and monitoring in the functioning phase of operational excellence...