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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)

Creating migration plan

The next phase in your migration project is planning cloud migration. You will use the information you gathered during the portfolio discovery phase to create an efficient migration plan. By the end of this phase in your migration project, you should be able to create an ordered backlog of applications that can migrate to the cloud.

The main goals of the migration planning phase include the following:

  • Choosing a migration strategy
  • Defining the success criteria for the migration
  • Determining the right-sizing of the resources in the cloud
  • Determining a priority for applications to migrate to the cloud
  • Identifying migration patterns
  • Creating a detailed migration plan, checklist, and schedule
  • Creating migration sprint teams
  • Identifying tools for migration

In preparation for the migration planning phase, you must perform a detailed discovery of all the IT assets that are part of your cloud migration portfolio. The target destination environment in the cloud is also...