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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)

Clusters in SF

We have talked about clusters in SF, but how can you really understand such a concept in that service? You probably remember that, during the creation of a cluster, we had to choose both node types and their characteristics—the number of VMs and their type. If you choose to have three nodes with five machines in each one, you will end up with a cluster of fifteen machines in total. SF automatically balances it, so if you are changing its size, all services will be redeployed to achieve maximum utilization. In this chapter, we will talk a little about security, available features, and scalability.

The following is a conceptual diagram of a cluster organization:

Cluster security

If you go back to the creation...