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Milancho Arsovski edited this page Jan 3, 2023 · 2 revisions

Solution Architects

How to Become a Software Architect

Language :

To start your career as a Software Architect, you should have a sound knowledge of programming languages & frameworks. Architects lead the team of developers, collaborate with other groups, review code, etc. hence one must have a thorough understanding of programming concepts and paradigms.

Architecture Pattern and Style :

In software engineering, a design pattern is a general, reusable solution for solving a common problem when designing an application or system.

  • Microservice
  • Event Driven
  • Layered
  • Master-Slave
  • Publisher Subscriber

Design Principal and Pattern

A design pattern is more of a template to approach the problem.

  • Design Pattern - GOF , OOPS principle, programming Paradigms.
  • ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability)
  • CAP (Consistency, Availability, Partition Tolerance)
  • SOLID
  • Domain-driven design

Important Skills :

  • An architect takes all Technology, Architecture, and Design Decisions and conducts the POT and POC.

  • He mentors technical teams and promotes quality standards and the right vision of the product. As a result, they should be able to win authority and respect.

  • An architect communicates with stakeholders, business analysts, and engineers, explaining the benefits of employing certain technologies or applying a specific pattern. He manages the system design and should be able to identify risks timely.

  • Operational Knowledge - one should have working experience in some of the following areas to make a better decision.

Containers

  • IAAS .
  • Serverless
  • CI/CD .
  • Cloud design
  • Distributed computing
  • LB
  • Security Gateway

Data and Analytics: One should have strong hands with the some of the following tools

  • SQL and NoSQL databases
  • Batch processing ( Spark ,Hadoop)
  • Stream Processing ( flink, spark streaming ,storm)
  • Warehouse (hive, snowflake )

Tools - Hands on experience with Important tools like

  • git, maven,check style,find bugs,
  • Jira, sonar, jenkins,
  • JMeter ,splunk etc

API and Integration - Rest/Soap/graphql and api management like mule soft, messaging queues .

Security - Security aspects related to Certificate ,credential data at rest ,data in motion

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