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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)

Difficulty in keeping up with user demand

Customer focus is the key to business success, and being unable to keep up with the latest technology trends can harm a business significantly. You can take the example of Nokia mobile phones, which used to lead the world mobile-phone market. As smartphones came into play nearly a decade ago, Nokia still stuck with a legacy system, and this resulted in near bankruptcy. It was a similar story with Kodak—one of the largest businesses in the photo-camera industry. Kodak was unable to move with digital innovation and adopt this into its systems, which resulted in Kodak becoming bankrupt in 2012. There are many such examples where large enterprises have been unable to survive due to a lack of legacy modernization and innovation.

In the current climate of fast-changing technology and fierce competition, users are very demanding. Now, organizations have to change as per the user's terms, as they have multiple demands. As technology moves...