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Solutions Architect's Handbook

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838645649
Length 490 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Neelanjali Srivastav Neelanjali Srivastav
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Saurabh Shrivastava Saurabh Shrivastava
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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 and Machine Learning 14. Architecting Legacy Systems 15. Solution Architecture Document 16. Learning Soft Skills to Become a Better Solution Architect 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Making incremental and reversible changes

Operational optimization is an ongoing process, whereby continuous effort is required to identify the gap and improve upon it. Achieving operational excellence is a journey. There are always changes required in all parts of your workload to maintain it—for example, often, operating systems of your server need to be updated with a security patch provided by your vendor. Various software that your application is using needs a version upgrade. You need to make changes in the system to adhere to new compliance.

You should design your workload in such a way that it allows all system components to get updated regularly, so the system will benefit from the latest and most significant updates available. Automate your flow so that you can apply small changes to avoid any significant impact. Any changes should be reversible, to restore system working conditions in the case of any issues. Incremental changes help to do thorough testing and improve...

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