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Solutions Architect's Handbook

By : Saurabh Shrivastava, Neelanjali Srivastav
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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

In this chapter, you learned about various design patterns by applying the techniques from Chapter 3, Attributes of the Solution Architecture, and Chapter 4, Principles of Solution Architecture Design. First, you built the architecture design foundation from a multilayer architecture with a reference architecture from three-tier web application architecture. You learned how to design a multi-tenant architecture on top of a three-tier architecture, which can provide a SaaS kind of offering. You learned how to isolate multi-tenant architecture at the database label, schema level, and table level as per customer and organization need.

User state management is very critical for complex applications such as finance, e-commerce, travel booking, and more. You learned about the difference between stateful and stateless applications and their benefits. You also learned how to create a stateless application with a persistent layer of the database for session management. You learned about...