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Azure for Architects

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Azure for Architects

Overview of this book

Over the years, Azure cloud services has grown quickly, and the number of organizations adopting Azure for their cloud services is also gradually increasing. Leading industry giants are finding that Azure fulfills their extensive cloud requirements. This book will guide you through all the important and tough decision-making aspects involved in architecturing a Azure public cloud for your organization. The book starts with an extensive introduction to all the categories of designs available with Azure. These design patterns focus on different aspects of cloud such as high availability, data management, and so on. Gradually, we move on to various aspects such as building your cloud structure and architecture. It will also include a brief description about different types of services provided by Azure, such as Azure functions and Azure Analytics, which can prove beneficial for an organization. This book will cover each and every aspect and function required to develop a Azure cloud based on your organizational requirements. By the end of this book, you will be in a position to develop a full-fledged Azure cloud.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

High Availability

High Availability is one of the major architectural concerns for any architect. It forms one of the core non-functional technical requirements for any serious service and its deployment. High Availability refers to the feature of a service or application that keeps it operational on a continuous basis, meeting or surpassing its promised defined service level agreement (SLA). Users are promised certain SLA on the availability of a service. The service should be available for consumption based on its SLA. For example, an SLA can have 99% availability for an application for the entire year (assuming 365 days). It means it should be available for consumption by users for 361.35 days. If it goes less than this, there is a breach of SLA. Most mission-critical applications define their High Availability SLA with five nines for a year. It means the application should...