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
- The Meaning of Solution Architecture
- Solution Architects in an Organization
- Attributes of the Solution Architecture
- Principles of Solution Architecture Design
- Cloud Migration and Hybrid Cloud Architecture Design
- Solution Architecture Design Patterns
- Performance Considerations
- Security Considerations
- Architectural Reliability Considerations
- Operational Excellence Considerations
- Cost Considerations
- DevOps and Solution Architecture Framework
- Data Engineering and Machine Learning
- Architecting Legacy Systems
- Solution Architecture Document
- Learning Soft Skills to Become a Better Solution Architect
Saurabh Shrivastava is a technology leader, author, inventor, and public speaker with over 18 years of experience in the IT industry. He currently works at Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a Global Solutions Architect Leader and enables global consulting partners and enterprise customers on their journey to the cloud. Saurabh led the AWS global technical partnerships, set his team's vision and execution model, and nurtured multiple new strategic initiatives. Saurabh has authored various blogs and whitepapers across a diverse range of technologies, such as big data, IoT, machine learning, and cloud computing. He is passionate about the latest innovations and their impact on our society and daily life. He holds a patent in the area of cloud platform automation. Before AWS, Saurabh worked as an enterprise solution architect, software architect, and software engineering manager in Fortune 50 enterprises, start-ups, and global product and consulting organizations.
Neelanjali Srivastav is a technology leader, product manager, agile coach, and cloud practitioner with over 16 years of experience in the software industry. She currently works at Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a Senior Product Manager and enables global customers on their data journey to the cloud. Neelanjali evangelizes and enables AWS customer and partners in AWS database, analytics, and machine learning services. She sets the product vision and cultivates new products in incubation. Before AWS, Neelanjali led teams of software engineers, solutions architects, and systems analysts to modernize IT systems and develop innovative software solutions for large enterprises. Neelanjali has held multiple roles in the IT services industry and R&D, focusing on enterprise application management, cloud service management, and orchestration.
Kamal Arora is an inventor, author, and technology leader with more than 15 years of IT experience. He currently works at Amazon Web Services and leads a diverse team of highly experienced solutions architects who enable global consulting partners and enterprise customers on their journey to cloud. Kamal has also led the creation of biggest global technical partnerships, set his team's vision and execution model, and incubated multiple new strategic initiatives. He's passionate about the latest innovations in the cloud and the AI/ML space, and their impact on our society and daily-life.
