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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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Saurabh Shrivastava
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Table of Contents (18) 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 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

Design thinking

A solution architect has the primary role of system design, which makes design thinking an essential skill. Design thinking is one of the most successful approaches adopted across industries to solve a challenging and unclear problem. Design thinking helps you to look at problems and solutions from a different perspective, which you might not have considered in the first instance. Design thinking is more focused on delivering results by providing a solution-based approach to solve the problem. It helps to pretty much question the problem, solution, and associated risk, to come up with the most optimized strategy.

Design thinking helps you to redefine problems in a more human-centric way by putting yourself in the place of end users and customers. The following diagram illustrates the primary principles of design thinking:

Principles of design thinking

The following points are some design-thinking principles:

  • Emphasis on people: Collect feedback from various users and...
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