Solutions Architect's Handbook (eBook)

Kick-start your career with architecture design principles, strategies, and generative AI techniques

Saurabh Shrivastava, Neelanjali Srivastav (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
582 Seiten
Packt Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-83508-436-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Build a strong foundation in solution architecture and excel in your career with the Solutions Architect's Handbook. Authored by seasoned AWS technology leaders Saurabh Shrivastav and Neelanjali Srivastav, this book goes beyond traditional certification guides, offering in-depth insights and advanced techniques to meet the specific needs and challenges of solutions architects today.
This edition introduces exciting new features that keep you at the forefront of this evolving field. From large language models and generative AI to deep learning innovations, these cutting-edge advancements are shaping the future of technology. Key topics such as cloud-native architecture, data engineering architecture, cloud optimization, mainframe modernization, and building cost-efficient, secure architectures remain essential today. This book covers both emerging and foundational technologies, guiding you through solution architecture design with key principles and providing the knowledge you need to succeed as a Solutions Architect. It also sharpens your soft skills, providing career-accelerating techniques to stay ahead.
By the end of this book, you will be able to harness cutting-edge technologies, apply practical insights from real-world scenarios, and enhance your solution architecture skills with the Solutions Architect's Handbook.

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Contents

1. Forewords
2. Contributors
   1. Join our book’s Discord space
3. Preface
   1. Who this book is for
   2. What this book covers
   3. To get the most out of this book
   4. Get in touch
   5. Making the Most Out of This Book – Get to Know Your Free Benefits
   6. Unlock Your Book’s Exclusive Benefits
   7. How to unlock these benefits in three easy steps
   8. Need help?
4. Solutions Architects in Organizations
   1. What is solution architecture?
      1. The benefits of solution architecture
   2. The solutions architect’s role
      1. Generalist solutions architect roles
         1. Enterprise solutions architect
         2. Application Architect
         3. Cloud Architect
         4. Architect Evangelist
      2. Specialist solutions architect roles
         1. Infrastructure Architect
         2. Network Architect
         3. Data Architect
         4. ML Architect
         5. GenAI architect
         6. Security Architect
         7. DevOps architect
         8. Industry Architect
   3. Understanding a solutions architect’s responsibilities
      1. Analyze functional requirements (FRs)
      2. Define NFRs
      3. Understand and engage stakeholders
      4. Understand architecture constraints
      5. Make technology selections
      6. Develop a POC and prototype
      7. Solution design and delivery
         1. Ensuring post-launch operability and maintenance
      8. Solution scaling and technology evangelism
   4. Solutions architect in an Agile organization
   5. Common challenges in the solutions architect role
   6. Career path and skill development for solutions architects
   7. Summary
5. Principles of Solution Architecture Design
   1. Building scalable architecture design
      1. Scaling static content
         1. Session management for application server scaling
         2. Database scaling
         3. Building elastic architecture
   2. Building a highly available and resilient architecture
      1. Highly available architecture
      2. Resilient architecture
      3. Achieving redundancy
      4. Addressing component failure
   3. Making your architecture fault-tolerant
   4. Designing for performance
   5. Creating immutable architecture
   6. Think loose coupling
   7. Think service, not server
   8. Think data-driven design
   9. Adding security everywhere
   10. Making applications usable and accessible
       1. Achieving usability
       2. Achieving accessibility
   11. Building future-proof extendable and reusable architecture
   12. Ensuring architectural interoperability and portability
       1. Making applications interoperable
          1. Making applications portable
   13. Applying automation everywhere
   14. Plan for business continuity
   15. Design for operation
   16. Overcoming architectural constraints
       1. Taking the MVP approach
   17. Summary
6. Cloud Migration and Cloud Architecture Design
   1. Public, private, and hybrid clouds
   2. Solution architecture in the public cloud
      1. Public cloud architecture
      2. Popular public cloud providers
      3. Cloud-native architecture
      4. Designing cloud-native architecture
   3. Creating a cloud migration strategy
      1. Lift and shift migration
         1. Rehost
         2. Replatform
         3. Relocate
      2. The cloud-native approach
         1. Refactor
         2. Repurchase
      3. Retain or retire
         1. Retain
         2. Retire
   4. Choosing a cloud migration strategy
   5. Steps for cloud migration
      1. Discovering your portfolio and workloads
      2. Analyzing the information
      3. Creating a migration plan
      4. Designing the application
      5. Executing application migration to the cloud
         1. Data migration
         2. Server migration
      6. Integrating, validating, and cutover
         1. Validation
         2. Integration
         3. The cutover process
      7. Operating the cloud application
      8. Application optimization in the cloud
   6. Creating a hybrid cloud architecture
   7. Taking a multi-cloud approach
   8. Implementing CloudOps
   9. CloudOps pillars
   10. Summary
   11. Further reading
   12. Join our book’s Discord space
7. Solution Architecture Design Patterns
   1. Building an n-tier layered architecture
      1. The web layer
      2. The application layer
      3. The database layer
   2. Creating a multi-tenant SaaS-based architecture
   3. Understanding service-oriented architecture
      1. RESTful web service architecture
      2. Building a RESTful-architecture-based e-commerce website
   4. Building a cache-based architecture
      1. Cache distribution pattern in a three-tier web architecture
      2. Rename distribution pattern
      3. Cache proxy pattern
      4. Rewrite proxy pattern
      5. App caching pattern
      6. Memcached versus Redis
   5. Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture
      1. Applying MVC to design an online bookstore
   6. Building Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
   7. Understanding the circuit breaker pattern
   8. Implementing the bulkhead pattern
   9. Creating a floating IP pattern
   10. Deploying an application with a container
       1. The benefit of containers
       2. Container deployment
       3. Building container-based architecture
   11. Database handling in application architecture
       1. High-availability database pattern
   12. Clean Architecture
   13. Avoiding anti-patterns in...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.4.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Netzwerke
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Programmiersprachen / -werkzeuge
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► SOA / Web Services
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Web / Internet
• ISBN-10: 1-83508-436-2 / 1835084362
• ISBN-13: 978-1-83508-436-6 / 9781835084366