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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)

Techniques for cost optimization

To gain a competitive edge and keep up with rapid growth, enterprises are investing more in technology. With economic instability, cost optimization becomes an essential but challenging task. These companies spend a lot of time and research on reducing costs in the procurement process, operation, and vendors. Many companies even share data centers, call centers, and workspaces as a cost-saving method. Sometimes organizations delay upgrades to avoid buying new expensive hardware.

The organization can save more if it takes a broader look into the overall information technology architecture across its business units. Improving existing architecture can open doors to bring more opportunities and business to the company even if it requires a bit more adjustment in the budget. Let's identify the focus area where companies can save money and gain opportunities to bring more revenue with techniques such as moving to the cloud, simplified architecture, virtualization...