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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)

Canary testing

Canary testing is one of the popular methods that is used to apply rolling deployment with immutable infrastructure. It helps you to ensure that old-version production servers are replaced safely with new servers, without impacting the end users. In canary testing, you deploy your software update in a new server and route a small amount of traffic to it.

If everything goes well, you will keep increasing traffic by adding more new servers, while disposing of the old servers. Canary deployment gives you a safe option to push your changes in the live production environment. If something goes wrong, only small numbers of users are impacted, and you have the option of immediate recovery by routing traffic back to the old servers.

The solution architect needs to think ahead to use replaceable resources for deployment. They need to plan session management and avoid server dependency on hardcoded resources ahead of time. Always treat resources as replaceable and design your applications...