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Modern Solution Architecture - Volume 1Designing Scalable, Secure, and Distributed Systems Modern digital platforms must scale, heal themselves, and integrate securely across cloud, mobile, payments, telco, and enterprise systems. Modern Solution Architecture - Volume 1 is a comprehensive, practical guide for engineers, architects, and technical leaders who want to design systems that work reliably in the real world. Written from hands-on experience across banking, telecommunications, government, and global technology companies, this book takes you from architecture foundations to advanced distributed systems design. Every concept is explained with clarity, diagrams, patterns, trade-offs, and real enterprise scenarios. What You Will Learn: Architecture Foundations - Roles of architects, decision frameworks, ADRs, requirements engineering, modeling with C4/UML, performance vs consistency trade-offs, and designing for failure. Networking & Infrastructure - TCP/IP, DNS, CDNs, NAT, BGP, VPN/VLAN/VRF, firewalls, load balancers, reverse proxies, API gateways, service meshes, multi-region routing, cloud networking patterns, and edge architecture. API & Integration Design - REST, GraphQL, gRPC, async messaging, WebSockets, SSE, protocol Buffers, throttling, retries, circuit breakers, idempotency, OAuth2, JWT, mTLS, mediation, transformation, and enterprise integration patterns. Distributed Systems - Event-driven architecture, pub/sub messaging, eventual consistency, consensus, leader election, CAP & PACELC, distributed transactions, sagas, CRDTs, caching, replication, failover, chaos engineering, and global active-active deployments. Data Architecture - SQL vs NoSQL, OLTP/OLAP/HTAP, sharding, indexing, replication, partitioning strategies, CDC, event sourcing, stream processing, data lakes, lakehouse models, governance, lineage, and privacy-by-design. Security Architecture - Zero Trust, IAM/IAG, RBAC/ABAC, encryption, certificates, mTLS, key rotation, threat modeling (STRIDE/PASTA), OWASP mitigations, fraud/risk controls, and compliance for regulated industries. Cloud, DevOps & Observability - Containers and Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, progressive deployment (blue-green & canary), autoscaling, resilience patterns, SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and incident response. Enterprise System Designs (Case Studies) - Payments and lending platforms, digital identity and authentication, healthcare EHR systems, live streaming platforms, social feed ranking, job schedulers and workflow engines, multi-media handling, shopping carts, telecom integrations, ingestion platforms. Leadership & Influence for Architects - Technical communication, documentation that drives alignment, stakeholder management, conflict resolution, mentoring engineers, and leading cross-functional delivery. Who This Book Is For: Software Engineers moving into architecture Tech Leads, Cloud Engineers, and DevOps practitioners Solution & Enterprise Architects seeking a modern reference Students preparing for senior-level and system design interviews Engineering Managers and CTOs building scalable digital platforms About the AuthorStanley Makori is an Engineering Leader and Solution Architect with experience designing high-scale platforms across Africa and global technology companies. His work spans payments, identity, integration, distributed systems, cloud-native architecture, and enterprise transformation. This book captures the architectural patterns, lessons, and real-world thinking required to design systems that scale, survive failure, and deliver measurable business impact. Build systems for the future. Start your architecture journey today.

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