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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)

Design principles for architecture performance

Architectural performance efficiency focuses on efficiently using application infrastructure and resources to meet increasing demand and technology evaluation. Technology vendors and open source communities continuously work to improve the performance of applications. Often, large enterprises continue to work on legacy programming languages and technologies because of fear of changing and taking risks. As technology evolves, it often addresses critical performance issues, and the advancement of technology in your application helps to improve application performance.

Many large public cloud providers, such as Amazon Web Service (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), offer technology as a service. This makes it easier to adopt enterprise jobs and complex technologies more efficiently and with minimal effort—for example, you might use storage as a service to manage a massive amount of data or a NoSQL database as a managed...