Prior experience of software architecture design will help you to follow along with this book. However, no specific prerequisites are required to understand this book. All the examples and relevant instructions are provided throughout the various chapters. This book takes you into the deep concepts underlying solution architecture design and does not require knowledge of any particular programming language, framework, or tool.
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by Saurabh Shrivastava,
Neelanjali Srivastav,
Kamal Aro
Solutions Architect's Handbook
- Title Page
- Copyright and Credits
- Dedication
- About Packt
- Foreword
- Contributors
- Preface
- The Meaning of Solution Architecture
- Solution Architects in an Organization
- Types of solution architect role
- Understanding a solution architect's responsibilities
- Analyzing user requirements
- Defining non-functional requirements
- Engaging and working with stakeholders
- Handling various architecture constraints
- Making technology selections
- Developing a proof of concept and a prototype
- Designing solutions and staying through delivery
- Ensuring post-launch operability and maintenance
- Working as a technology evangelist
- Solution architects in an agile organization
- Summary
- Attributes of the Solution Architecture
- Scalability and elasticity
- High availability and resiliency
- Fault-tolerance and redundancy
- Disaster recovery and business continuity
- Extensibility and reusability
- Usability and accessibility
- Portability and interoperability
- Operational excellence and maintainability
- Security and compliance
- Cost optimization and budget
- Summary
- Principles of Solution Architecture Design
- Cloud Migration and Hybrid Cloud Architecture Design
- Benefits of cloud-native architecture
- Creating a cloud migration strategy
- Steps for cloud migration 
- Creating a hybrid cloud architecture
- Designing a cloud-native architecture
- Popular public cloud choices
- Summary
- Further reading
- Solution Architecture Design Patterns
- Building an n-tier layered architecture
- Creating multi-tenant SaaS-based architecture
- Building stateless and stateful architecture designs
- Understanding SOA
- Building serverless architecture
- Creating microservice architecture
- Building queue-based architecture
- Creating event-driven architecture
- Building cache-based architecture
- Understanding the circuit breaker pattern
- Implementing the bulkheads pattern
- Creating a floating IP pattern
- Deploying an application with a container
- Database handling in application architecture
- Avoiding anti-patterns in solution architecture
- Summary
- Performance Considerations
- Security Considerations
- Designing principles for architectural security
- Selecting technology for architectural security
- Security and compliance certifications
- The cloud's shared security responsibility model
- Summary
- Architectural Reliability Considerations
- Operational Excellence Considerations
- Cost Considerations
- DevOps and Solution Architecture Framework
- Data Engineering and Machine Learning
- What is big data architecture?
- Designing big data processing pipelines
- Data ingestion
- Storing data
- Processing data and performing analytics
- Visualizing data
- Understanding IoT
- What is ML?
- Working with data science and ML
- Evaluating ML models – overfitting versus underfitting
- Understanding supervised and unsupervised ML
- Summary
- Architecting Legacy Systems
- Solution Architecture Document
- Learning Soft Skills to Become a Better Solution Architect
- Acquiring pre-sales skills
- Presenting to C-level executives
- Taking ownership and accountability
- Defining strategy execution and OKRs
- Thinking big
- Being flexible and adaptable
- Design thinking
- Being a builder by engaging in coding hands-on
- Becoming better with continuous learning
- Being a mentor to others
- Becoming a technology evangelist and thought leader
- Summary
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