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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)

Scalability versus performance

It is quite easy to get confused between scalability and performance architectural concerns because scalability is all about ensuring that no matter the number of users consuming the application, all get the same pre-determined level of performance.

Performance relates to application features that ensure that the application caters to predefined response time and throughput, scalability refers to having provision for more resources on a need basis to accommodate more users without sacrificing performance.

It is better to understand them using an analogy. Speed of a train refers to the performance for railway systems, however, accommodating more trains to run in parallel with the same or higher speed will be referred to as scalability of the railway network.