Preface
The Solutions Architect’s Handbook guides readers to create robust, scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant solutions by learning different aspects of solution architecture and next-generation architecture design in the cloud environment.
This book will start by detailing solution architecture and the role of solutions architect. It will take the reader through the journey of solution architecture design by providing a detailed overview of design pillars, advanced design patterns, and cloud-native aspects of modern software design. The reader will further deep dive into solution design performance optimization, security, compliance, reliability, cost optimization, and operational excellence.
This book provides an in-depth understanding of the automation of security, infrastructure, DevOps, disaster recovery, and the documentation of solution architecture. It also explains how to future-proof architecture design with data engineering, machine learning, and generative AI. As a bonus, this book also provides guidance on soft skills for solutions architects, and continuous learning techniques.
