cloud-solution-architect

# Cloud Solution Architect ## Overview Design well-architected, production-grade cloud systems following Azure Architecture Center best practices. This skill provides: - **10 design principles** for Azure applications - **6 architecture styles** with selection guidance - **44 cloud design patterns** mapped to WAF pillars - **Technology choice frameworks** for compute, storage, data, messaging - **Performance antipatterns** to avoid - **Architecture review workflow** for systematic design validation --- ## Ten Design Principles for Azure Applications | # | Principle | Key Tactics | |---|-----------|-------------| | 1 | **Design for self-healing** | Retry with backoff, circuit breaker, bulkhead isolation, health endpoint monitoring, graceful degradation | | 2 | **Make all things redundant** | Eliminate single points of failure, use availability zones, deploy multi-region, replicate data | | 3 | **Minimize coordination** | Decouple services, use async messaging, embrace eventual consistency, use domain events | | 4 | **Design to scale out** | Horizontal scaling, autoscaling rules, stateless services, avoid session stickiness, partition workloads | | 5 | **Partition around limits** | Data partitioning (shard/hash/range), respect compute & network limits, use CDNs for static content | | 6 | **Design for operations** | Structured logging, distributed tracing, metrics & dashboards, runbook automation, infrastructure as code | | 7 | **Use managed services** | Prefer PaaS over I...