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Azure for Developers. - Second Edition

By : Kamil Mrzygłód
5 (1)
Book Image

Azure for Developers. - Second Edition

5 (1)
By: Kamil Mrzygłód

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure is currently one of the fastest growing public cloud service providers thanks to its sophisticated set of services for building fault-tolerant and scalable cloud-based applications. This second edition of Azure for Developers will take you on a journey through the various PaaS services available in Azure, including Azure App Service, Azure Functions, and Azure SQL Databases, showing you how to build a complete and reliable system with ease. Throughout the book, you’ll discover ways to enhance your skills when building cloud-based solutions leveraging different SQL/NoSQL databases, serverless and messaging components, containerized solutions, and even search engines such as Azure Cognitive Search. That’s not all!! The book also covers more advanced scenarios such as scalability best practices, serving static content with Azure CDN, and distributing loads with Azure Traffic Manager, Azure Application Gateway, and Azure Front Door. By the end of this Azure book, you’ll be able to build modern applications on the Azure cloud using the most popular and promising technologies to make your solutions reliable, stable, and efficient.
Table of Contents (32 chapters)
1
Part 1: PaaS and Containers
8
Part 2: Serverless and Reactive Architecture
14
Part 3: Storage, Messaging, and Monitoring
22
Part 4: Performance, Scalability, and Maintainability

Using Azure Traffic Manager

Imagine the following situation—you have an application that must be served globally. To guarantee the best performance for all your customers worldwide, you provision different instances of your service in different regions (one for North America, one for Europe, and one for Africa). There is one problem - you must explicitly tell your customer to access a specific instance of the application, the one that is closest to their location.

While this is, of course, possible (just give the customer the right URL), the solution is not ideal. For example, what if your client goes for a holiday and spends the following two weeks in Europe instead of in Africa? To overcome such problems, in Azure, you can leverage a service named Azure Traffic Manager, which takes care of the proper routing of incoming requests and allows you to implement high availability in your application.

Functions of Azure Traffic Manager

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