Book Image

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)

Summary

The purpose of a SAD is to keep all stakeholders on the same page and get formal agreement on solution design and requirements. As stakeholders comprise both business and technical users, you learned about various views of the SAD that the solution architect needs to consider. You need to include views for non-technical users, such as business, process, and logical views. For technical users, include views such as application, development, deployment, and operational views.

You learned about the detailed structure of the SAD, with major sections and subsections. Various sections of the SAD include details such as an overview of the solution, business, and conceptual architecture. You also learned about various architecture views such as application, data, infrastructure, integration, and security, with reference to the architecture diagram. You learned about other sections for solution delivery consideration and operation management.

It was a long journey of learning. You are...