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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)

Business context

In the business context section, the solution architect needs to provide a high-level overview of business capabilities and requirements that the solution is going to address. This section only contains an abstract view of requirements. Detailed requirements need to be a part of a separate requirements document. However, the external link of the requirements document can be provided here. You should include the following primary subsections:

  • Business capabilities: Provide a brief description of business capabilities for which the solution is being designed. Make sure to include the benefits of capabilities and how they will address customer needs.
  • Key business requirements: List all key business concerns that the solution is going to address. Provide a high-level view of key requirements and add a reference to the detailed requirements document.
  • Key business processes: Solution architects should show key processes with a business process document. The following diagram...