Author: Saurabh Shrivastava and Neelanjali Srivastav
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 how it fits in an agile enterprise environment. It will further take the reader through the journey of solution architecture design by providing detailed knowledge of design pillars, advanced design patterns, anti-patterns, and cloud-native aspects of modern software design.
Chapter 1, The Meaning of Solution Architecture, defines what solution architecture is and its importance. It explains various benefits of having a solution architecture in place and talks about architecting on the public cloud.