Solutions Architect’s Handbook, 2nd Edition
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    • Solutions Architect's Handbook - Second Edition
    • Contributors
    • About the authors
    • About the reviewer
    • Forewords
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    • Preface
    • Who this book is for?
    • What this book covers
    • To get the most out of this book
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    • Conventions used
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    • What is solution architecture?
    • The evolution of solution architecture
    • Why is solution architecture important?
    • The benefits of solution architecture
    • Addressing the business needs and quality of delivery
    • Selecting the best technology platform
    • Addressing solution constraints and issues
    • Helping in resource and cost management
    • Managing solution delivery and project life cycle
    • Addressing non-functional requirements
    • Solution architecture in the public cloud
    • What is the public cloud?
    • Public clouds, private clouds, and hybrid clouds
    • The public cloud architecture
    • Thinking cloud-native architecture
    • Public cloud providers and cloud service offerings
    • Summary
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    • Types of roles for a solution architect
    • Generalist solution architect roles
    • Specialist solution architect roles
    • 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
    • Why the agile methodology?
    • Agile manifesto
    • Agile process and terminology
    • Summary
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    • Scalability and elasticity
    • The capacity dilemma in scaling
    • Scaling your architecture
    • Static content scaling
    • Server fleet elasticity
    • Database scaling
    • 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
    • Authentication and authorization
    • Web security
    • Network security
    • Infrastructure security
    • Data security
    • Cost optimization and budget
    • Summary
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    • Scaling workloads
    • Predictive scaling
    • Reactive scaling
    • Building a resilient architecture
    • Design for performance
    • Using replaceable resources
    • Creating immutable infrastructure
    • Think loose coupling
    • Think service not server
    • Using the right storage for the right requirements
    • Think data-driven design
    • Overcoming architectural constraints
    • Taking the minimum viable product approach
    • Adding security everywhere
    • Applying automation everywhere
    • Summary
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    • Benefits of cloud native architecture
    • Popular public cloud choices
    • Creating a cloud migration strategy
    • Lift and Shift migration
    • The cloud native approach
    • Retain or retire
    • Choosing a cloud strategy
    • Steps for cloud migration
    • Discovering your workload
    • Analyzing the information
    • Creating a migration plan
    • Designing the application
    • Performing application migration to the cloud
    • Integration, validation, and cutover
    • Operating the cloud application
    • Application optimization in the cloud
    • Creating hybrid cloud architecture
    • Taking a multi-cloud approach
    • Designing cloud native architecture
    • Summary
    • Further reading
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    • Building an n-tier layered architecture
    • The web layer
    • The application layer
    • The database layer
    • Creating a multi-tenant SaaS-based architecture
    • Building stateless and stateful architecture designs
    • Understanding service-oriented architecture
    • SOAP web service architecture
    • RESTful web service architecture
    • Building an SOA-based e-commerce website architecture
    • Building a serverless architecture
    • Creating a microservice architecture
    • Real-time voting application reference architecture
    • Building a queue-based architecture
    • Queuing chain pattern
    • Job observer pattern
    • Creating an event-driven architecture
    • Publisher/subscriber model
    • Event stream model
    • Building a cache-based architecture
    • Cache distribution pattern in a three-tier web architecture
    • Rename distribution pattern
    • Cache proxy pattern
    • Rewrite proxy pattern
    • App caching pattern
    • Understanding the circuit breaker pattern
    • Implementing the bulkheads pattern
    • Creating a floating IP pattern
    • Deploying an application with a container
    • The benefit of containers
    • Container deployment
    • Building container-based architecture
    • Database handling in application architecture
    • High-availability database pattern
    • Avoiding anti-patterns in solution architecture
    • Summary
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    • Design principles for architecture performance
    • Reducing latency
    • Improving throughput
    • Handling concurrency
    • Applying caching
    • Technology selection for performance optimization
    • Making a computational choice
    • Choosing storage
    • Choosing the database
    • Improving network performance
    • Managing performance monitoring
    • Summary
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    • Designing principles for architectural security
    • Implementing authentication and authorization control
    • Applying security everywhere
    • Reducing the blast radius
    • Monitoring and auditing everything all the time
    • Automating everything
    • Protecting data
    • Responding to security incidents
    • Selecting technology for architectural security
    • User identity and access management
    • Handling web security
    • Securing an application and its infrastructure
    • Data security
    • Security and compliance certifications
    • The cloud's shared security responsibility model
    • Summary
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    • Design principles for architectural reliability
    • Making systems self-healing
    • Applying automation
    • Creating a distributed system
    • Monitoring and adding capacity
    • Performing recovery validation
    • Technology selection for architectural reliability
    • Planning the Recovery Time Objective and Recovery Point Objective
    • Replicating data
    • Planning disaster recovery
    • Applying best practices for DR
    • Improving reliability with the cloud
    • Summary
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    • Designing principles for operational excellence
    • Automating manual tasks
    • Making incremental and reversible changes
    • Predicting failures and responding
    • Learning from mistakes and refining
    • Keeping the operational runbook updated
    • Selecting technologies for operational excellence
    • Planning for operational excellence
    • The functioning of operational excellence
    • Improving operational excellence
    • Achieving operational excellence in the public cloud
    • Summary
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    • Design principles for cost optimization
    • Calculating the total cost of ownership
    • Planning the budget and forecast
    • Managing demand and service catalogs
    • Keeping track of expenditure
    • Continuous cost optimization
    • Techniques for cost optimization
    • Reducing architectural complexity
    • Increasing IT efficiency
    • Applying standardization and governance
    • Monitoring cost usage and report
    • Cost optimization in the public cloud
    • Summary
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    • Introducing DevOps
    • Understanding the benefits of DevOps
    • Understanding the components of DevOps
    • Continuous integration/continuous deployment
    • Continuous monitoring and improvement
    • Infrastructure as Code
    • Configuration management
    • Introducing DevSecOps
    • Combining DevSecOps and CI/CD
    • Implementing a CD strategy
    • In-place deployment
    • Rolling deployment
    • Blue-green deployment
    • Red-black deployment
    • Immutable deployment
    • Implementing continuous testing in the CI/CD pipeline
    • A/B testing
    • Using DevOps tools for CI/CD
    • Code editor
    • Source code management
    • Continuous integration server
    • Code deployment
    • Code pipeline
    • Implementing DevOps best practices
    • Building DevOps and DevSecOps in the cloud
    • Summary
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    • What is big data architecture?
    • Designing big data processing pipelines
    • Data ingestion
    • Technology choices for data ingestion
    • Ingesting data to the cloud
    • Storing data
    • Technology choices for data storage
    • Processing data and performing analytics
    • Technology choices for data processing and analysis
    • Visualizing data
    • Technology choices for data visualization
    • Designing big data architectures
    • Data lake architecture
    • Lakehouse architecture
    • Data mesh architecture
    • Streaming data architecture
    • Big data architecture best practices
    • Summary
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    • What is machine learning?
    • Working with data science and ML
    • Evaluating ML models – overfitting versus underfitting
    • Supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms
    • Machine learning in the cloud
    • Building machine learning architecture
    • Prepare and label
    • Select and build
    • Train and tune
    • Deploy and manage
    • Machine learning reference architecture
    • Machine learning operations
    • MLOps principles
    • MLOps best practices
    • Deep learning
    • Summary
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    • What is the Internet of Things?
    • Components of IoT architecture
    • Managing IoT devices
    • Connecting and controlling IoT devices
    • Performing analytics on IoT data
    • IoT in the cloud
    • Building an industrial IoT solution
    • Connected Factory IoT architecture
    • Implementing a digital twin
    • Summary
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    • The building blocks of quantum computers
    • Qubits
    • Superposition
    • Entanglement
    • The working mechanism of quantum computers
    • Quantum gates
    • Quantum circuits
    • Types of quantum computers
    • Quantum computing in real life
    • Quantum computing in the cloud
    • Summary
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    • Learning the challenges of legacy systems
    • Difficulty in keeping up with user demand
    • Higher cost of maintenance and update
    • Shortage of skills and documentation
    • Vulnerable to corporate security issues
    • Incompatibility with other systems
    • Benefits of system modernization
    • Defining a strategy for system modernization
    • Assessment of a legacy application
    • Defining the modernization approach
    • Looking at legacy system modernization techniques
    • Encapsulation, rehosting, and replatforming
    • Refactoring and rearchitecting
    • Redesigning and replacing
    • Defining a cloud migration strategy for legacy systems
    • Documentation and support
    • Mainframe migration with the public cloud
    • Migrating standalone applications
    • Migrating applications with shared code
    • Summary
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    • Purpose of the SAD
    • Views of the SAD
    • Structure of the SAD
    • Solution overview
    • Business context
    • Conceptual solution overview
    • Solution architecture
    • Solution implementation
    • Solution management
    • Appendix
    • IT procurement documentation for a solution architecture
    • Summary
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    • Acquiring pre-sales skills
    • Presenting to C-level executives
    • Taking ownership and accountability
    • Defining strategy execution with objectives and key results
    • 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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