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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)

Monitoring and auditing everything all the time

Put the logging mechanism for every activity in your system and conduct a regular audit. Audit capabilities are often also required from various industry-compliance regulations. Collect logs from every component, including all transactions and each API call, to put centralized monitoring in place. It is a good practice to add a level of security and access limitation for a centralized logging account so that no one is able to tamper with it.

Take a proactive approach and have the alert capability to take care of any incident before the user gets impacted. Alert capabilities with centralized monitoring help you to take quick action and mitigate any incident. Monitor all user activity and application accounts to limit the security breach.