Solutions Architect's Handbook
Kick-start your solutions architect career by learning architecture design principles and strategies
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
- 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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