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Azure for Architects. - Second Edition

By : Ritesh Modi
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Azure for Architects. - Second Edition

By: Ritesh Modi

Overview of this book

Over the years, Azure cloud services have 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. Azure for Architects – Second Edition starts with an extensive introduction to major designing and architectural aspects available with Azure. These design patterns focus on different aspects of the cloud, such as high availability, security, and scalability. Gradually, we move on to other aspects, such as ARM template modular design and deployments. This is the age of microservices and serverless is the preferred implementation mechanism for them. This book covers the entire serverless stack available in Azure including Azure Event Grid, Azure Functions, and Azure Logic Apps. New and advance features like durable functions are discussed at length. A complete integration solution using these serverless technologies is also part of the book. A complete chapter discusses all possible options related to containers in Azure including Azure Kubernetes services, Azure Container Instances and Registry, and Web App for Containers. Data management and integration is an integral part of this book that discusses options for implementing OLTP solutions using Azure SQL, Big Data solutions using Azure Data factory and Data Lake Storage, eventing solutions using stream analytics, and Event Hubs. This book will provide insights into Azure governance features such as tagging, RBAC, cost management, and policies. By the end of this book, you will be able to develop a full-?edged Azure cloud solution that is Enterprise class and future-ready.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Preface

Over the years, Azure cloud services have grown quickly, and the number of organizations adopting Azure for their cloud services has also been on the increase. Leading industry giants are discovering that Azure fulfills their extensive cloud requirements.

This book starts with an extensive introduction to all the categories of designs available with Azure. These design patterns focus on different aspects of the cloud, including high availability and data management. Gradually, we move on to various other aspects, such as building your cloud deployment and architecture. Every architect should have a good grasp of some of the important architectural concerns related to any application. These relate to high availability, security, scalability, and monitoring. They become all the more important because the entire premise of the cloud is dependent on these important concerns. This book will provide architects with all the important options related to scalability, availability, security, and the monitoring of Infrastructure of a Service (IaaS) as well as Platform as a Service (PaaS) deployments. Data has become one of the most important aspects of cloud applications. This book covers the architecture and design considerations for deploying Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) applications on Azure. Big data and related data activities, including data cleaning, filtering, formatting, and using Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) services are provided by the Azure Data Factory service. Finally, serverless technologies are gaining a lot of traction with their orchestration using Azure Logic Apps. This will also be covered comprehensively in this book.

By the end of this book, you will be able to develop a fully-fledged Azure cloud instance.