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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

In this chapter, you have learned about the key components of a strong DevOps practice, which includes CI, CD, and continuous monitoring and improvement. The agility of CI/CD can be achieved only by applying automation everywhere. To automate, you learned about IaC and configuration management. You also looked at various automation tools such as Chef, Puppet, and Ansible to automate configuration management.

As security is the priority, you learned about DevSecOps, which is DevOps in security. CD is one of the key aspects of DevOps. You learned about various deployment strategies, including rolling, blue-green, and red-black deployment. Testing is another aspect of ensuring the quality of your product, and you learned about the concept of continuous testing in DevOps, and also, how A/B testing can help to improve the product by taking direct feedback from a customer in the live environment.

You have learned about the stages in a CI/CD pipeline. You have learned about the tools...