Solution Architect’s Handbook

From fundamentals and design patterns to the different strategies for creating secure and reliable architectures, learn everything you need to become a successful solution 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 solution architect gives you the flexibility to work with cutting-edge technologies and define product strategy. This book 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 solution architect.

This book starts with a quick introduction to the fundamentals of solution architecture design principles and attributes that will assist you with understanding how solution architecture benefits software projects across enterprises. You’ll learn what a cloud migration and application modernization framework looks like and develop modern architectures using microservices, event-driven, cache-based, and serverless design patterns. You’ll then explore the main pillars of architecture design, including performance, scalability, cost optimization, security, operational excellence, and DevOps. In addition to this, you’ll also learn the advanced concept of big data, machine learning, and IoT. Finally, you’ll get familiar with the documentation of architecture design and the soft skills necessary to become a better solution architect.

By the end of this book, you’ll have learned the techniques to create an efficient architecture design that meets your business requirements.

What you will learn

• Explore the different roles of a solution architect and their involvement in the enterprise landscape
• Understand advanced concepts such as big data processing, machine learning, and IoT from an architect’s perspective
• Discover different solution architecture patterns such as event-driven and microservices 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 solution architect professionals. A good understanding of the software development process and general programming experience with any language will be useful.