System Design on AWS

Building and Scaling Enterprise Solutions

Author: Jayanth Kumar and Mandeep Singh

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From figuring out the right tools to estimating the right provisioning, nearly every solution comes with a complicated set of choices and trade-offs. AWS provides a one-stop shop for building and scaling these applications, and this practical guide helps you decide which pieces to use and how to fit them together.

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Enterprises building complex and large-scale applications in the cloud face multiple challenges. From figuring out the right tools to estimating the right provisioning, nearly every solution comes with a complicated set of choices and trade-offs. AWS provides a one-stop shop for building and scaling these applications, and this practical guide helps you decide which pieces to use and how to fit them together.

Authors Jayanth Kumar and Mandeep Singh equip software architects and engineers with essential AWS and system design knowledge to help you make good decisions and overcome the challenges of designing and scaling enterprise software architecture. By diving into specific use cases, you'll understand how these principles and resources can be applied to real-world problems.

With this book, you will:

Learn the basics and best practices of successful system design
Understand key AWS services and their strengths and limitations for building large-scale systems
Examine engineering patterns and principles that best support large-scale systems, and learn how to design architecture with scalability, operations, and resilience in mind
Learn what highly performant and cost-optimized architectures look like on AWS and the tools and frameworks that are best for specific use cases

About the Author

Jayanth Kumar is a Software Development Manager at Amazon, where he is currently building large-scale software systems. Kumar is a millennial polymath, published poet, certified AWS Solutions Architect Professional, entrepreneur, engineering leader and an assistant professor. He earned his bachelor's degree from IIT Bombay and his master's degree from UCLA, where he studied Multi-Objective Deep Learning. He formerly held software engineering positions at SAP Germany and Silicon Valley. Later, as an entrepreneur, he held the positions of Head of Engineering at Goodhealth and Engineering Manager at Delhivery, an Indian unicorn company. He is always seeking a challenge and new opportunities for learning, and focuses on building robust mechanisms and systems that will stand the test of time. Mandeep is a Software Engineer at Jupiter. He fell in love with Cloud, AWS Technologies and Distributed Systems in the role of Big Data Cloud Support Associate at AWS and as a Software Engineer at Amazon. He supports the learning and development of others by sharing lessons on Cloud and Distributed Systems on his YouTube channel. He enjoys morning runs, weight lifting, cooking and spending time with his family in the serene ambience of his hometown.