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Implementing Azure: Putting Modern DevOps to Use

By : Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Markus Klein, Mohamed Waly, Namit Tanasseri, Rahul Rai
Book Image

Implementing Azure: Putting Modern DevOps to Use

By: Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Markus Klein, Mohamed Waly, Namit Tanasseri, Rahul Rai

Overview of this book

This Learning Path helps you understand microservices architecture and leverage various services of Microsoft Azure Service Fabric to build, deploy, and maintain highly scalable enterprise-grade applications. You will learn to select an appropriate Azure backend structure for your solutions and work with its toolkit and managed apps to share your solutions with its service catalog. As you progress through the Learning Path, you will study Azure Cloud Services, Azure-managed Kubernetes, and Azure Container Services deployment techniques. To apply all that you’ve understood, you will build an end-to-end Azure system in scalable, decoupled tiers for an industrial bakery with three business domains. Toward the end of this Learning Path, you will build another scalable architecture using Azure Service Bus topics to send orders between decoupled business domains with scalable worker roles processing these orders. By the end of this Learning Path, you will be comfortable in using development, deployment, and maintenance processes to build robust cloud solutions on Azure. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Learn Microsoft Azure by Mohamed Wali • Implementing Azure Solutions - Second Edition by Florian Klaffenbach, Oliver Michalski, Markus Klein • Microservices with Azure by Namit Tanasseri and Rahul Rai
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Service tier types


At the time of writing, there are two types of service tiers:

  • DTU service tiers
  • vCore service tiers

DTU service tiers

At the time of writing, there are three DTU service tiers for Azure SQL Database: Basic, Standard, and Premium. All of these offer support for elastic database pools and single databases only, but not the SQL database managed instance. The performance of these tiers is expressed in DatabaseTransaction Units (DTUs) for single databases, and elastic Database Transaction Units (eDTUs) for elastic database pools.

DTUs specify the performance for single databases, as they provide a specific amount of resources to that database.

On the other hand, eDTUs do not provide a dedicated set of resources for a database, as they share resources within a specific Azure SQL Server with all the databases which run that server.

Note

For more information about DTUs and eDTUs, you can check out the following article: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/sql-database...