Architecting Cloud Computing Solutions. Build cloud strategies that align technology and economics while effectively managing risk

Kevin L. Jackson, Scott Goessling

Cloud adoption is a core component of digitaltransformation. Scaling the IT environment,making it resilient, and reducing costs arewhat organizations want. Architecting CloudComputing Solutions presents and explainscritical cloud solution design considerationsand technology decisions required tobe made for deploying the right cloudservice and deployment models,based on your business andtechnology service requirements.This book starts with the fundamentalsof cloud computing and its architecturalconcepts. It then walks you throughcloud service models (IaaS, PaaS, andSaaS), deployment models (public,private, community, and hybrid)and implementation options(enterprise, MSP, and CSP) to explainand describe the key considerations andchallenges organizations face during cloudmigration. Later, this book delves into how toleverage DevOps, Cloud-Native, and serverlessarchitectures in your cloud environmentand presents industry best practices forscaling your cloud environment. Finally,this book addresses in depth how tomanage essential cloud technologyservice components, such as data storage,security controls, and disaster recovery.By the end of this book, you will havemastered all the design considerations andoperational trades required to adopt cloudservices, no matter which cloud serviceprovider you choose.

Architecting Google Cloud Solutions. Learn to design robust and future-proof solutions with Google Cloud technologies

Victor Dantas

Google has been one of the top players in the public cloud domain thanks to its agility and performance capabilities. This book will help you design, develop, and manage robust, secure, and dynamic solutions to successfully meet your business needs.You'll learn how to plan and design network, compute, storage, and big data systems that incorporate security and compliance from the ground up. The chapters will cover simple to complex use cases for devising solutions to business problems, before focusing on how to leverage Google Cloud's Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) capabilities for designing modern no-operations platforms. Throughout this book, you'll discover how to design for scalability, resiliency, and high availability. Later, you'll find out how to use Google Cloud to design modern applications using microservices architecture, automation, and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices. The concluding chapters then demonstrate how to apply machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to derive insights from your data. Finally, you will discover best practices for operating and monitoring your cloud solutions, as well as performing troubleshooting and quality assurance.By the end of this Google Cloud book, you'll be able to design robust enterprise-grade solutions using Google Cloud Platform.

Architecting the Industrial Internet. The architect's guide to designing Industrial Internet solutions

Robert Stackowiak, Shyam Varan Nath, Carla Romano

The Industrial Internet or the IIoT has gained a lot of traction. Many leading companies are driving this revolution by connecting smart edge devices to cloud-based analysis platforms and solving their business challenges in new ways. To ensure a smooth integration of such machines and devices, sound architecture strategies based on accepted principles, best practices, and lessons learned must be applied.This book begins by providing a bird's eye view of what the IIoT is and how the industrial revolution has evolved into embracing this technology. It then describes architectural approaches for success, gathering business requirements, and mapping requirements into functional solutions. In a later chapter, many other potential use cases are introduced including those in manufacturing and specific examples in predictive maintenance, asset tracking and handling, and environmental impact and abatement. The book concludes by exploring evolving technologies that will impact IIoT architecture in the future and discusses possible societal implications of the Industrial Internet and perceptions regarding these projects.By the end of this book, you will be better equipped to embrace the benefits of the burgeoning IIoT.

Architectural Patterns. Uncover essential patterns in the most indispensable realm of enterprise architecture

Anupama Murali, Harihara Subramanian J, Pethuru Raj Chelliah

Enterprise Architecture (EA) is typically an aggregate of the business, application, data, and infrastructure architectures of any forward-looking enterprise. Due to constant changes and rising complexities in the business and technology landscapes, producing sophisticated architectures is on the rise. Architectural patterns are gaining a lot of attention these days.The book is divided in three modules. You'll learn about the patterns associated with object-oriented, component-based, client-server, and cloud architectures. The second module covers Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) patterns and how they are architected using various tools and patterns. You will come across patterns for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Event-Driven Architecture (EDA), Resource-Oriented Architecture (ROA), big data analytics architecture, and Microservices Architecture (MSA). The final module talks about advanced topics such as Docker containers, high performance, and reliable application architectures. The key takeaways include understanding what architectures are, why they're used, and how and where architecture, design, and integration patterns are being leveraged to build better and bigger systems.

Architektura oprogramowania w praktyce. Wydanie IV

Len Bass, Paul Clements, Rick Kazman

To kompletny, praktyczny i sprawdzony przewodnik po tworzeniu architektury nowoczesnego oprogramowania, w pełni zaktualizowany o nowe materiały poświęcone rozwiązaniom mobilnym, chmurze, zarządzaniu energią, podejściu DevOps, przetwarzaniu kwantowemu i innym zagadnieniom. Zaktualizowana o 11 nowych rozdziałów książka Architektura oprogramowania w praktyce, wydanie czwarte dokładnie wyjaśnia, czym jest architektura oprogramowania, dlaczego ma ona znaczenie, a także jak ją projektować, tworzyć, analizować i modyfikować oraz jak nią zarządzać w zdyscyplinowany i skuteczny sposób. Trzech poważanych architektów oprogramowania omawia cały cykl życia, prezentując praktyczne wskazówki, metody stosowane przez ekspertów i sprawdzone modele przydatne w każdym projekcie niezależnie od poziomu jego złożoności. Dowiesz się, jak za pomocą architektury radzić sobie z coraz większymi wymaganiami i systemami oraz wyższym poziomem abstrakcji, a także jak uzyskiwać emergentne atrybuty jakościowe, gdy systemy są dynamicznie łączone na nowe sposoby. W tym podręczniku znajdziesz informacje na temat optymalizowania za pomocą architektury najważniejszych atrybutów jakościowych (w tym wydajności, modyfikowalności, zabezpieczeń, dostępności, współdziałania, testowalności, użyteczności, łatwości wdrażania itd.), co pomoże Ci zrozumieć, jak zarządzać istniejącymi architekturami, dopracowywać je, przekształcać w celu rozwiązywania nowych problemów i tworzyć architektury wielokrotnego użytku, które stają się strategicznymi aktywami biznesowymi. Zobacz, jak architektura wpływa na środowisko techniczne, cykle życia projektów, profile biznesowe i Twoją pracę, a także jak te czynniki wpływają na architekturę. Wykorzystaj sprawdzone wzorce, interfejsy i praktyki do optymalizowania jakości za pomocą architektury. Twórz architekturę z myślą o rozwiązaniach mobilnych, chmurze, uczeniu maszynowym i przetwarzaniu kwantowym. Projektuj systemy pod kątem coraz ważniejszych atrybutów takich jak wydajność energetyczna i bezpieczeństwo. Skaluj systemy, odkrywając czynniki istotne architektonicznie, stosując podejście DevOps i potoki wdrażania oraz zarządzając długiem architektonicznym. Poznaj rolę architektury w organizacji, co pozwoli Ci tworzyć bardziej wartościowe rozwiązania.

ArcPy and ArcGIS. Automating ArcGIS for Desktop and ArcGIS Online with Python - Second Edition

Silas Toms, Dara OBeirne

ArcGIS allows for complex analyses of geographic information. The ArcPy module is used to script these ArcGIS analyses, providing a productive way to perform geo-analyses and automate map production.The second edition of the book focuses on new Python tools, such as the ArcGIS API for Python. Using Python, this book will guide you from basic Python scripting to advanced ArcPy script tools.This book starts off with setting up your Python environment for ArcGIS automation. Then you will learn how to output maps using ArcPy in MXD and update feature class in a geodatabase using arcpy and ArcGIS Online. Next, you will be introduced to ArcREST library followed by examples on querying, updating and manipulating ArcGIS Online feature services. Further, you will be enabling your scripts in the browser and directly interacting with ArcGIS Online using Jupyter notebook. Finally, you can learn ways to use of ArcPy to control ArcGIS Enterprise and explore topics on deployments, data quality assurances, data updates, version control, and editing safeguards.By the end of the book, you will be equipped with the knowledge required to create automated analysis with administration reducing the time-consuming nature of GIS.

Argo CD in Practice. The GitOps way of managing cloud-native applications

Liviu Costea, Spiros Economakis, Alexander Matyushentsev

GitOps follows the practices of infrastructure as code (IaC), allowing developers to use their day-to-day tools and practices such as source control and pull requests to manage apps. With this book, you’ll understand how to apply GitOps bootstrap clusters in a repeatable manner, build CD pipelines for cloud-native apps running on Kubernetes, and minimize the failure of deployments.You’ll start by installing Argo CD in a cluster, setting up user access using single sign-on, performing declarative configuration changes, and enabling observability and disaster recovery. Once you have a production-ready setup of Argo CD, you’ll explore how CD pipelines can be built using the pull method, how that increases security, and how the reconciliation process occurs when multi-cluster scenarios are involved. Next, you’ll go through the common troubleshooting scenarios, from installation to day-to-day operations, and learn how performance can be improved. Later, you’ll explore the tools that can be used to parse the YAML you write for deploying apps. You can then check if it is valid for new versions of Kubernetes, verify if it has any security or compliance misconfigurations, and that it follows the best practices for cloud-native apps running on Kubernetes.By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build a real-world CD pipeline using Argo CD.

AWS Administration - The Definitive Guide. Design, build, and manage your infrastructure on Amazon Web Services - Second Edition

Yohan Wadia

Many businesses are moving from traditional data centers to AWS because of its reliability, vast service offerings, lower costs, and high rate of innovation. AWS can be used to accomplish a variety of both simple and tedious tasks. Whether you are a seasoned system admin or a rookie, this book will help you to learn all the skills you need to work with the AWS cloud.This book guides you through some of the most popular AWS services, such as EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, EFS, CloudTrail, Redshift, EMR, Data Pipeline, and IoT using a simple, real-world, application-hosting example. This book will also enhance your application delivery skills with the latest AWS services, such as CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline, to provide continuous delivery and deployment, while also securing and monitoring your environment's workflow. Each chapter is designed to provide you with maximal information about each AWS service, coupled with easy to follow, hands-on steps, best practices, tips, and recommendations.By the end of the book, you will be able to create a highly secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable environment for your applications to run on.