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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)

User identity and access management

User identity and access management are vital parts of information security. You need to make sure only authenticated and authorized users are able to access your system resources in a defined manner. User management could be a daunting task as your organization and product adoption grows. User access management should differentiate and manage access to an organization's employees, vendors, and customers.

Enterprise or corporate users could be the organization's employees, contractors, or vendors. Those are specialist users who have a special privilege to develop, test, and deploy the application. In addition to that, they require access to another corporate system to do their daily job—for example, an Enterprise Resource System (ERP), a payroll system, an HR system, a timesheet application, and so on. As your organization grows, the number of users can grow from hundreds to thousands.

The end users are the customers who use your applications...