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

Name: Solutions Architect's Handbook: Kick-start your solutions architect career by learning architecture design principles and strategies
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Saurabh Shrivastava · Neelanjali Srivastav

Mar 2020 · Packt Publishing Ltd

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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 architectKey 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 DescriptionBecoming 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.

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Saurabh Shrivastava is an accomplished technology leader and author with more than two decades of experience in the IT industry. He is currently a global solutions architect leader at AWS, where he helps AWS customers and partners on their cloud journeys. Saurabh has also led the global technical partnerships team at AWS, playing a key role in launching several strategic initiatives and AWS agentic AI services. In addition to his work at AWS, Saurabh is the co-author of Packt's best-selling book Solutions Architect's Handbook, and has authored several blogs and whitepapers on various topics, such as advanced analytics, generative AI, machine learning, and cloud computing. He is passionate about the latest innovations and how they can impact our daily lives. Saurabh holds a patent in cloud platform automation and has worked as an enterprise solutions architect, software architect, and software engineering manager in Fortune 50 enterprises, start-ups, and global product and consulting organizations. With his vast experience and expertise, Saurabh is a valuable resource for anyone looking to learn about cloud computing and its various applications.

Neelanjali Srivastav is a technology leader, agile coach, and cloud practitioner with 16+ years of experience. She currently works at AWS as a Senior Product Manager and guides global customers on their data journey to the cloud. Neelanjali evangelizes and enables AWS customers and partners in AWS Database, Analytics, and Machine Learning Services. Neelanjali is the co-author of Packt's bestseller Solutions Architect's Handbook. Before AWS, she led teams of software engineers, solution architects, and systems analysts to modernize IT systems and develop innovative software solutions for large enterprises. She has held various roles in the IT services industry and R&D space, focusing on enterprise application and cloud service management.

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