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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)

Container deployment

Complex applications with multiple microservices can be quickly deployed using container deployment. The container makes it easier to build and deploy the application more quickly as the environment is the same. Build the container in development mode, push to test, and then release to production. For hybrid cloud environments, container deployment is very useful. Containers make it easier to keep environments consistent across microservices. As microservices aren't always very resource-consuming, they can be placed together in a single instance to reduce cost.

Sometimes, customers have short workflows that require a temporary environment setup. Those environments may be queue systems or continuous integration jobs, which don't always utilize server resources efficiently. Container orchestration services such as Docker and Kubernetes can be a workaround, allowing them to push and pop containers onto the instance.

Docker's Lightweight container virtualization...