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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)

Automating everything

Most accidents happen due to human error, which can be avoided by automation. Automation not only handles jobs efficiently, but also increases productivity and saves costs. Anything identified as a repeatable task should be automated to free up valuable human resources so that team members can spend their time on more exciting work and focus on solving a real problem. It also helps to increase team morale.

When designing a solution, think about what can be automated. Consider the following components to be automated in your solution:

  • Application testing: You need to test your application every time you make any changes to make sure that nothing breaks. Also, manual testing is very time consuming and requires lots of resources. It's better to think about automating repeatable test cases to speed up deployment and product launch. Automate your testing at production scale and use rolling deployment techniques, such as canary testing and A/B testing, to release...