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Hands-On Azure for Developers

By : Kamil Mrzygłód
Book Image

Hands-On Azure for Developers

By: Kamil Mrzygłód

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure is one of the fastest growing public cloud service providers in the market currently, and also holds the second highest market share after AWS. Azure has a sophisticated set of services that will help you build fault-tolerant and scalable cloud-based applications. Hands-On Azure for Developers will take you on a journey through multiple PaaS services available in Azure, including App Services, Functions, and Service Fabric, and explain in detail how to build a complete and reliable system with ease. You will learn about how to maximize your skills when building cloud-based solutions leveraging different SQL/NoSQL databases, serverless and messaging components, and even search engines such as Azure Search. In the concluding chapters, this book covers more advanced scenarios such as scalability best practices, serving static content with Azure CDN, and distributing loads with Azure Traffic Manager. By the end of the book, you will be able to build modern applications on the Azure cloud using the most popular and promising technologies, which will help make your solutions reliable, stable, and efficient.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)

Chapter 17: Big Data Storage – Azure Data Lake

  1. In general, it is easier to manage security groupsin that case, you do not have to add an individual entity each time a new user is granted access.
  2. RBAC is based on roles, while POSIX ACL is based on computing the set of permissions based on the actions assigned to a user or a group.
  3. There are no file size limits in ADLS.
  4. It depends on your requirementswhile the particular structure may not affect the performance, file sizes may.
  5. Yes, ADLS will work with any language that is able to connect to it.
  6. Azure Storage introduces file size limits and capacity limits. It also offers a much simpler security model than Azure Data Lake Storage.
  7. You have to implement replication to a secondary region.