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A Developer's Guide to Building Resilient Cloud Applications with Azure

By : Hamida Rebai Trabelsi
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A Developer's Guide to Building Resilient Cloud Applications with Azure

By: Hamida Rebai Trabelsi

Overview of this book

To deliver software at a faster rate and reduced costs, companies with stable legacy systems and growing data volumes are trying to modernize their applications and accelerate innovation, but this is no easy matter. A Developer’s Guide to Building Resilient Cloud Applications with Azure helps you overcome these application modernization challenges to build secure and reliable cloud-based applications on Azure and connect them to databases with the help of easy-to-follow examples. The book begins with a basic definition of serverless and event-driven architecture and Database-as-a-Service, before moving on to an exploration of the different services in Azure, namely Azure API Management using the gateway pattern, event-driven architecture, Event Grid, Azure Event Hubs, Azure message queues, FaaS using Azure Functions, and the database-oriented cloud. Throughout the chapters, you’ll learn about creating, importing, and managing APIs and Service Fabric in Azure, and discover how to ensure continuous integration and deployment in Azure to fully automate the software delivery process, that is, the build and release process. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build and deploy cloud-oriented applications using APIs, serverless, Service Fabric, Azure Functions, and Event Grid technologies.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1: Building Cloud-Oriented Apps Using Patterns and Technologies
5
Part 2: Connecting Your Application with Azure Databases
13
Part 3: Ensuring Continuous Integration and Continuous Container Deployment on Azure

Azure Storage account

In the healthcare solution, we have a platform for patient medical records. It includes unstructured data such as documents, messages, notes, and images related to a patient, for example, diagnoses documents, annual exams, and disease surveillance. All these documents are stored on a virtual machine using a custom solution to extract or load the unstructured data.

Azure Storage is a service that can be used to store files, messages, tables, and other types of data. It’s scalable, secure, and easy to manage and can be accessed from anywhere. Azure Storage is following two cloud models: infrastructure as a service by using virtual machines and platform as a service by using native cloud services. Azure Storage includes four data services, which can be accessed through a storage account.

Each type supports different features and has a unique URL address to access. The data and your Azure Storage account are always replicated to ensure durability and...