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Solutions Architect's Handbook

You're reading from   Solutions Architect's Handbook Kick-start your career as a solutions architect by learning architecture design principles and strategies

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801816618
Length 590 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Saurabh Shrivastava Saurabh Shrivastava
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Neelanjali Srivastav Neelanjali Srivastav
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Meaning of Solution Architecture 2. Solution Architects in an Organization FREE CHAPTER 3. Attributes of the Solution Architecture 4. Principles of Solution Architecture Design 5. Cloud Migration and Hybrid Cloud Architecture Design 6. Solution Architecture Design Patterns 7. Performance Considerations 8. Security Considerations 9. Architectural Reliability Considerations 10. Operational Excellence Considerations 11. Cost Considerations 12. DevOps and Solution Architecture Framework 13. Data Engineering for Solution Architecture 14. Machine Learning Architecture 15. The Internet of Things Architecture 16. Quantum Computing 17. Rearchitecting Legacy Systems 18. Solution Architecture Document 19. Learning Soft Skills to Become a Better Solution Architect 20. Other Books You May Enjoy
21. Index

Creating a microservice architecture

Often, microservices are architected in REST-style web services and are independently scalable. This makes it easier to expand or shrink the relevant components of your system while leaving the rest untouched. A system that employs microservices can more easily withstand incidents where application availability can degrade gracefully to avoid any cascading failures. Your system becomes fault-tolerant, that is, built with failure in mind.

The clear advantage of microservices is that you have to maintain a smaller surface area of code. Microservices should always be independent. You can build each service with no external dependencies where all prerequisites are included, which reduces the inter-dependency between application modules and enables loose coupling.

The other overarching concept of microservices is bounded contexts, which are the blocks that combine together to make a single business domain. A business domain could be something...

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