Solutions Architect's Handbook - Softcover

Inhaltsangabe

From fundamentals and design patterns to the different strategies for creating secure and reliable architectures in AWS cloud, learn everything you need to become a successful solutions architect

Key Features

• Create solutions and transform business requirements into technical architecture with this practical guide
• Understand various challenges that you might come across while refactoring or modernizing legacy applications
• Delve into security automation, DevOps, and validation of solution architecture

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

• Explore the various roles of a solutions architect and their involvement in the enterprise landscape
• Approach big data processing, machine learning, and IoT from an architect s perspective and understand how they fit into modern architecture
• Discover different solution architecture patterns such as event-driven and microservice patterns
• Find ways to keep yourself updated with new technologies and enhance your skills
• Modernize legacy applications with the help of cloud integration
• Get to grips with choosing an appropriate strategy to reduce cost

Who this book is for

This book is for software developers, system engineers, DevOps engineers, architects, and team leaders working in the information technology industry who aspire to become solutions architect professionals. A good understanding of the software development process and general programming experience with any language will be useful.

Table of Contents

1. The Meaning of Solution Architecture
2. Solution Architects in an Organization
3. Attributes of the Solution Architecture
4. Principles of Solution Architecture Design
5. Cloud Migration and Hybrid Cloud Architecture Design
6. Solution Architecture Design Patterns
7. Performance Considerations
8. Security Considerations
9. Architectural Reliability Considerations
10. Operational Excellence Considerations
11. Cost Considerations
12. DevOps and Solution Architecture Framework
13. Data Engineering and Machine Learning
14. Architecting Legacy Systems
15. Solution Architecture Document
16. Learning Soft Skills to Become a Better Solution Architect

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